To John Higgins 9 December 1857
Down Bromley Kent
Dec. 9th. 1857
Ch. Darwin
My dear Sir
I beg leave to acknowledge & thank you for £248:2:1, placed to my account at the Union Bank.—1
Pray believe me, My dear Sir | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
To | John Higgins Esq
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. CD signed across a stamp (see also plate in Correspondence vol. 30). In 1853, a penny duty on documents functioning as receipts was introduced. After the new measure came into force on 11 October 1853, any receipt for a sum of £2 or more had to carry a one penny stamp if it was to be an admissible record of the transaction (Annual Register (1853): 56; Economist 11 (1853): 1127). See also Correspondence vol. 5, letter to John Higgins, 2–3 December [1853].
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of £248 2s. 1d.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2181F
- 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
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2181F,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 30 (Supplement)
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