From John Lubbock 26 November [1868]1
15, Lombard Street. E.C.
26 Nov.
Dear Mr. Darwin
Many thanks for your very kind letter.
It is of course a disappointment but the reception I have everywhere met with in West Kent has been most gratifying.
In Bromley particularly & Dartford I had quite an ovation.2
Ever, dear Mr Darwin, | Yours most sincerely | John Lubbock
Footnotes
The year is established by the reference to the election result (see n. 2, below).
Lubbock had recently been defeated by a narrow margin in the parliamentary election held in the western division of Kent on 23 November 1868 (The Times, 26 November 1868, p. 10). The towns of Bromley and Dartford were both polling places in the division.
Summary
JL’s failure to be elected to Parliament.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6478
- From
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Lombard St, 15
- Source of text
- DAR 170: 68
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6478,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
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