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Summary
Wishes to borrow volumes 1 and 3 of Narrative [vol. 1 by Capt. P. P. King, vol. 3 by CD].
Transcription
15, Lombard Street. E.C.
2 Sep./64
My dear Mr Darwin
Could you kindly lend me the 1st. & 3rd. Vols. of Fitzroy?f1 If you would send it to High Elmsf2 for me any time, they would forward it.
I hope you keep on improving.
Believe me, dear Mr. Darwin, | Yours affec | John Lubbock
C Darwin Esq
Footnotes
- f1
- Robert FitzRoy edited the Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty’s ships Adventure and Beagle (Narrative). Volume 1 covered the first expedition, 1826–30, and Volume 3 was CD’s Journal and remarks, which was also published separately as Journal of researches.
- f2
- The grounds of Down House bordered the High Elms estate, home of Lubbock’s father, John William Lubbock. Lubbock lived in Chislehurst, Kent, about five miles north of High Elms.