From John Lubbock [21 October 1866]1
High Elms
My dear Mr. Darwin
I cannot very well come up to Down this afternoon.
You will I am sure be tired & must not overdo yourself. I wish you would send Haeckel down here to dinner & I would send him over to the station if he must go to night, or give him a bed & take him up in the morning if he could stay till then.2
Believe me | Yours most sincerely | John Lubbock
Pray tell him I am very anxious to make his acquaintance.
JL
Footnotes
The date is established by the reference to Ernst Haeckel’s visit to CD, which took place on Sunday 21 October 1866 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)).
There is no evidence that Haeckel visited Lubbock.
Summary
Anxious to make acquaintance of Ernst Haeckel [who was staying with CD].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5252
- From
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- High Elms
- Source of text
- DAR 170: 51
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5252,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5252.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14
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