From John Lubbock 13 February [1869]1
13 Feb.
My dear Mr. Darwin
If you & Hooker say it is all right I shall feel quite justified in signing Miss Meteyards petition.2
I am really anxious about the Down school & think if the Parish was properly Canvassed the necessary funds would be forthcoming without pressing unduly on a few.3
It seems that none of my brothers (except Henry)4 had even been spoken to on the subject.
I have been very nearly promising to stand for Westminster if Smith is turned out, but my senior partner Mr Ellice advised me so strongly against doing so that I have declined.5
Ever | Yours very sincerely | John Lubbock
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Post Office London directory: Post-Office annual directory. … A list of the principal merchants, traders of eminence, &c. in the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent … general and special information relating to the Post Office. Post Office London directory. London: His Majesty’s Postmaster-General [and others]. 1802–1967.
Summary
Down School funds.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6613
- From
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 170: 72
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6613,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6613.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17
