From John Lubbock 7 July [1875]1
15, Lombard Street, E.C.
7 July
My dear Mr Darwin
Nelly2 thinks perhaps it would seem hardly courteous to the Duke not to ask him down, so if you see no objection I will when you are fairly settled write & propose the previous arrangement.3
Yours affec | J Lubbock
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to John Lubbock, 3 May [1875].
Lubbock had previously tried to arrange for CD to come to High Elms to meet Francis, duke of Teck (see letter to John Lubbock, 3 May [1875] and n. 3). CD had just returned from Abinger Hall in Surrey on 6 July (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)).
Summary
Arrangements to invite the Duke [unidentified].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10047
- From
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Lombard St, 15
- Source of text
- DAR 170: 78
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10047,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10047.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
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