To John Lubbock [29 July 1856]1
Down
Tuesday Evening
Dear Lubbock
Parslow utterly forgot to give me till within 5 minutes your note.
I am very sorry to say that I really cannot refer you to what you want: this very same point was always a trouble to me.
I am delighted to hear that you are going on well.— I have just returned from Poultry show & am very tired so no more2
Ever your’s | C. Darwin
Can you let me have back my 110’ glass as I sometimes want it. The 18’ compound I am not in a hurry for;3 it had better be packed carefully whenever returned as a jar would hurt it.—
Has not Martin Barry in last 10 years in Phil. Transact. given drawings of germinal vesicle?4 I think he must have done so.—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Barry, Martin. 1838. Researches in embryology. First series. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, pp. 301–41.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Regrets he cannot help JL; the point [unspecified] was always a trouble to CD also.
Has been to a poultry show.
Asks for the return of a lens.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1620
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 263: 13 (EH 88206462)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1620,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1620.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6