To John Lubbock 27 [October 1862]1
Down Bromley your letter went to Dover. Kent
27th
My dear Lubbock.
Many thanks for your note.2 I hope & expect to be well enough on Friday to see you. I presume 7o oclock will be the best hour for you.—3 If I shd. be bad, I would send over to Lamas4 on Friday afternoon. I cannot say much for several of us; for we have had a touch of Influenza5
Ever yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
The date is established by the relationship to the letter from John Lubbock, 25 October 1862.
Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that Lubbock dined at Down House on Friday 31 October 1862.
‘Lamas’ was Lubbock’s house in Chislehurst, Kent.
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—’.
Summary
Hopes to be well enough on Friday to see JL.
Several of the family have had influenza.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3783
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3783,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10
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