To John Lubbock [19 November 1859]1
Well Terrace | Ilkley, Otley | Yorkshire
Saturday
Dear Lubbock
It is Mr. Phillips of Down.2 He is an invalid & little accustomed to writing & I am sure would hate extremely explaining on paper. As you will be absent for month & as I hope at about that time to be at home, I will not write but will call on my return & inform you.—
Thank you much for asking me to Brighton. I hope much that you will enjoy your holiday.—
I have told Murray to send a copy for you to Mansion House St, & I am surprised that you have not received it—3 There are so many valid & weighty arguments against my notions, that you or anyone if you wish on the other side, will easily persuade yourself that I am wholly in error, & no doubt I am in part in error, perhaps wholly so, though I cannot see the blindness of my ways.—4
I daresay when Thunder & Lightning were first found to be due to Secondary causes, some regretted to give up the idea that each flash was caused by the direct hand of God.—
Farewell. I am feeling very unwell today so no more.— | Yours very truly | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Summary
Has told John Murray to send copy of the Origin. There are "many valid and weighty arguments against my notions".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2527
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- Sent from
- Ilkley
- Source of text
- DAR 263: 16 (EH 88206465)
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2527,” accessed on 22 September 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2527.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7
