To John Lubbock 14 [July 1855]1
Down.
14th
Dear Lubbock.
To prevent you taking more trouble in vain, I write to say that I got yesterday some more & enough specimens of Helix pomatia for my Snailery.—2
Very many & hearty thanks for your splendid Lepidoptera Books, which my Boys study with great interest.3 Please do not forget sometime the number of acres in Larch wood, & when planted. We have now collected in it about 115 species of plants.4
Yours most truly | C. Darwin
P.S. | I forget whether you know Mr. Leonard Horner. He comes here on Monday with his family & if you would like to meet him, I much hope that you will dine with us on Tuesday next at 7 oclock. The Carters (who are staying at Colonel Cators House) will be with us, & the Innes’.—5 If so inclined, I hope that you will come.—
C. D
Footnotes
Summary
CD has more specimens of Helix pomatia.
Thanks for Lepidoptera book.
Invites JL to dinner.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1831
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.621)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1831,” accessed on 8 June 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1831.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5
