To John Lubbock [1 January 1864]1
Down
Friday
My dear Lubbock.—
I am better today than I have been for 2 or 3 weeks & am going to try to write a few lines to you.—2 Your Review of Huxley has been read to me.3 I fear I always like praise too much; but I am not ashamed to say that I enjoy it from you, even though the praise be too much & too strong.— I only wish you had praised Huxley’s part of work more.—4
I see announced that you are going to publish a book of Essays & am glad to see it.5 But you must remember that you ought to keep to original work as many can write Review & Summaries &c &c, but very few indeed can make original observations. Excuse this admon⟨ition.⟩
I must write no more.— I fear it will be months before I shall work again.—
Farewell Your sincere friend | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
[Lubbock, John.] 1864b. Huxley’s lectures on the origin of species. Natural History Review n.s. 4: 37–43.
Marginalia: Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of Nicholas W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990.
Summary
JL’s review of Huxley ["Lectures to working men", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 4 (1864)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4375
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 263: 61 (EH 88206505)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4375,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4375.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12