To John Lubbock 14 August [1861]
2. Hesketh Crescent | Torquay
Aug. 14th.
My dear Lubbock
I thank you sincerely for your very kind expressions towards me.1 Your talking of living at Brighton made me realise how much I have enjoyed your friendship & what a loss your absence would be to me. By the way I have not heard where your new House is.—2 William & my two little Boys have had this morning a grand hunt after Petrobi & have caught about a dozen, which I send by this same Post in a large old cannister.—3
With respect to the Bank, I have been thinking over what you say & will not forget it, but the Union Bank has on two or three occasions been so obliging to me, that I should feel it intolerably shabby to leave them without sufficient motive. It would make me feel almost guilty.—4
We shall return home, I am glad to say in about a fortnight, & I suppose by that time William will be a Banker!5
Dear Lubbock | Ever yours very truly | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Hutchinson, Horace Gordon. 1914. Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. London: Macmillan.
Summary
JL is thinking of moving to Brighton.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3233
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- Sent from
- Torquay
- Source of text
- DAR 263: 47 (EH 88206491)
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3233,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 9
