To John Lubbock [3 September 1862]1
Cliff Cottage | Bournemouth
Wednesday
My dear Lubbock
I beg a million pardons. Abuse me to any degree but forgive me— it is all an illusion (but almost excusable) about the Bees.2 I do so hope that you have not wasted any time for my stupid blunder.— I hate myself I hate clover & I hate Bees—
In Haste to catch evening post | Yours sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Dated by the relationship to the letters to John Lubbock, 2 September [1862] and 5 September [1862]; the intervening Wednesday was 3 September.
Summary
CD was in error about bees’ behaviour at clover.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3705
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- Sent from
- Bournemouth
- Source of text
- DAR 263: 55
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3705,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3705.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10
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