From John Lubbock to Emma Darwin 6 November 1863
15, Lombard Street. E.C.1
6 Nov. 1863
My dear Mrs. Darwin
I return with many thanks the extract from the Record which you were kind enough to lend me.2
I should be very much obliged if you would drop me one line to say how Mr. Darwin is now.
Please give him my love & Believe me | Yours very truly | John Lubbock
Footnotes
The address of the London bank Robarts, Lubbock & Co., of which Lubbock was a partner.
Lubbock refers to the review of Origin in the Record of 12 December 1860, p. 4, which he had borrowed from CD (see letter from John Lubbock to Emma Darwin, 24 October 1863).
Bibliography
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Summary
Returns a borrowed extract from the [Zoological?] Record.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4331
- From
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- To
- Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Lombard St, 15
- Source of text
- DAR 170: 43
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4331,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4331.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11
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