From John Lubbock 20 February 1863
15, Lombard Street. E.C.
20 Feb/63
My dear Mr. Darwin
I could not answer your kind note at once, my plans being very undecided.1
If however it would suit you I should much like to dine with you on Sunday.2
Will you kindly send me a line to Chiselhurst.3
Yours affec— | John Lubbock
C Darwin Esq
Footnotes
The letter to Lubbock has not been found.
Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242) that John Lubbock dined at Down House on Sunday 22 February 1863.
Lubbock resided in Chislehurst, Kent, a village about five miles north of Down.
Summary
Dining arrangements.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4002
- From
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Lombard St, 15
- Source of text
- DAR 170: 36
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4002,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4002.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11
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