To John Higgins [16 November 1866]
[Down.]
for your kind invitation to him.—1
Pray believe me | My dear Sir | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
J. Higgins Esqre
Footnotes
This letter is a fragment from an autograph album. In it, CD presumably thanked Higgins for a payment to his account of £252 19s. 2d, six months’ rent on CD’s farm at Beesby in Lincolnshire (CD’s Account books–banking account (Down House MS)). Higgins also managed the estate of CD’s sister Susan Elizabeth Darwin at Claythorpe in Lincolnshire; she died in October 1866, and the estate was inherited by CD’s son William Erasmus Darwin. It is possible that Higgins had invited to William to visit him.
Summary
[Acknowledges receipt of £252 19s. 2d.]
Thanks JH for his kind invitation to [William Erasmus Darwin, who had inherited the Claythorpe property in Lincolnshire, also managed by JH, from CD’s sister, Susan Elizabeth Darwin?]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5279F
- 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 1p inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5279F,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 30 (Supplement)
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