Letter 5366 — Lubbock, John to Darwin, C. R., 16 Jan 1867

High Elms

16 Jan/67

My dear M^r. Darwin

My brother in law Robert Birkbeck^f1 is going to spend some months in Corsica, & he thinks that Murray might possibly like some notes with reference to a Handbook for the Island.^f2

He is anxious therefore for a note of introduction to him & I thought I might take the liberty of asking you to give him one.

If you would not mind adding, on my authority, that he is a man who will take pains to get accurate information, & whose statements would I think be thoroughly reliable, I should be very much obliged.

Hoping you are better again | I remain, dear M^r. Darwin, | Very sincerely yours | John Lubbock

C. Darwin Esq

Footnotes

f1

Birkbeck was married to Lubbock’s elder sister, Mary Harriet (Hutchinson 1914).

f2

John Murray was CD’s publisher.