To John Lubbock 22 October 1879
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
October 22 1879
My dear Lubbock
I cannot help writing, though it is so soon, to tell you how deeply I sympathise with you in your dreadful loss.1 It is a terrible calamity. She used to show in every word & her expression how devotedly she loved you.— Her image, so bright & beautiful, now rises clearly before my eyes, as I saw her first years ago in the Crystal Palace.2 My wife, as you will well believe, joins me in her deep sympathy for you & all your family.— Do not, of course, pain yourself by answering this note.
Yours affectionately | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Hutchinson, Horace Gordon. 1914. Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. London: Macmillan.
Summary
Condolences on the death of JL’s wife.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12267
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 263: 68 (EH 88206512)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12267,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12267.xml