Letter 3783
Darwin, C. R. to Lubbock, John
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Hopes to be well enough on Friday to see JL.
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Several of the family have had influenza.
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Down Bromley your letter went to Dover. Kent
27
My dear Lubbock.
Many thanks for your note. I hope & expect to be well
enough on Friday to see you. I presume 7
Ever yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
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The date is established by the relationship to the letter from John Lubbock, 25 October 1862. - +
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Letter from John Lubbock, 25 October 1862. - +
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Emma Darwin's diary (DAR 242) records that Lubbock dined at Down House on Friday 31 October 1862. - +
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`Lamas' was Lubbock's house in Chislehurst, Kent. - +
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Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242) on 25 October 1862: `I feverish & bad cold | in bed'; on 26 October she wrote: `in bed—'.