From John Lubbock 22 and 26 March 1865
Chiselhirst
22 Mar./65
My dear Mr. Darwin
The rest of the books which you were kind enough to lend me are now on their way to Down.1 I have kept them an unconscionable time, & it was very ungrateful of me not to have written to thank you. I was however really about to do so.
I shall be at High Elms2 on Sunday & will try to see you. I should much like to do so, it seems an age since we have met. I am very glad to hear you are better.
My father is I fear far from well.3
The book is at length very nearly done.4 The M.M.S. is all gone to the Printer. How about yours?5
Believe me, dear Mr Darwin, | Yours affec | John Lubbock
C Darwin Esq | FRS etc— High Elms 26 Mar. 65 My dear Mr. Darwin
The preceding note speaks for itself. I stupidly omitted to post it & only found it yesterday. You must have thought me most uncourteous.
I came up to Down this morning & hoped to have seen you, but was very sorry to hear from Parslow that you were unwell again6
Yours affec | John Lubbock
C Darwin Esq
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
Journal and remarks: Journal and remarks. 1832–1836. By Charles Darwin. Vol. 3 of Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty’s ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle’s circumnavigation of the globe. London: Henry Colburn. 1839. [Separately published as Journal of researches.]
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.
Narrative: Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty’s ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836. [Edited by Robert FitzRoy.] 3 vols. and appendix. London: Henry Colburn. 1839.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
JL’s MS at printer’s [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Apologises for failure to post letter.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4791
- From
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Chislehurst
- Source of text
- DAR 170: 50
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4791,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4791.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13