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Darwin Correspondence Project

To John Higgins   1 June 1862

Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.

June 1st. 62

My dear Sir

I beg leave to acknowledge the sum of £240:7s:9d to be placed to my credit at Union Bank on June 7th.—, being half years rent due Lady’s day.—1

I am much obliged to you for informing me that you will call at my Brothers 6 Queen Anne St on Friday about 12 o clock, for I shd. be particularly glad to have the pleasure of seeing you; & unless I am too unwell to travel, I will certainly be there on purpose at that hour.2

My dear Sir | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

To | J. Higgins Esqre

Footnotes

The payment was for six months’ rent on CD’s farm at Beesby, Lincolnshire (CD’s Investment book (Down House MS), p. 20). Higgins was CD’s land agent. March 25, the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, was one of the traditional ‘quarter-days’ of the business year, when rents were paid.
CD did not meet Higgins at the house of his brother, Erasmus Alvey Darwin, in London (see this volume, Supplement, letter from John Higgins, 13 June 1862).

Summary

Acknowledges receipt of £240 7s. 9d.

Hopes to meet JH at Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s house in London on Friday 6 June.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-3581F
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
John Higgins
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Physical description
ALS 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3581F,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3581F.xml

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