To John Lubbock [1871 or later]1
My dear Sir J. L.
All the inhabitants of this place hope that you will endeavour to induce the Post Office to give us better Telegraph communication.2 At present we have to send 4 miles to Orpington; which is a great inconvenience & it is a still greater one that persons telegraphing here naturally direct to B. or B;3 & we consequently have to pay for 3 or 6 miles carriage, & much delay is caused.—4 The Authorities originally intended to give us a T., as the Box & apparatus was sent long ago to the Post-Office here.—5 As you well know, Down though a small, is a thriving place, well supplied with shops, & is a little metropolis for a large rural district.— We all hope that you will lay our case before the Post [Ath]
& I remain Dear Sir John | yours very sincerely | C. D.
Footnotes
Bibliography
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.
Poulton, Edward Bagnall. 1896. Charles Darwin and the theory of natural selection. London, Paris, and Melbourne: Cassell and Company.
Summary
All the inhabitants of Down hope JL will endeavour to induce the Post Office to improve the telegraph service.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7057
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 96: 89
- Physical description
- ADraftS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7057,” accessed on 19 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7057.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19