To John Lubbock 14 July [1861]1
2. Hesketh Crescent | Torquay
July 14th.
My dear Lubbock
Pray give my sincere thanks to Sir John Lubbock for his note, & yourself accept my cordial thanks.2 Your notes have been of greatest possible assistance to me. I felt so entirely ignorant that I did not know whether my solicitor was quite unreasonable.— I have now written to him, telling him that we require merely fair terms, to be as civil as possible, to push no point to an unreasonable extent, & finally that we are anxious to join. I hope Mr. Atherley will modify some of the points. What you seem to think struck me that there was too much provision for the distant future; as Mr Atherleys son is only 8 years old; I shd. have thought (& have so told my solicitor) that all such points might have been left open.—
I hope most deeply that the negotiation will not fall through: I must be guided to a large extent by my solicitor but I have urged him not to be too particular.
Anyhow I am sure you have done everything, far more than I could have expected, to help us.— I should hope that we shall have no need to trouble Sir John or you again; but if perplexed, I will accept your kind offer.—
Yours very gratefully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks JL and his father for advice regarding Southampton bank. Has written to Atherley for fair terms.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3209
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- Sent from
- Torquay
- Source of text
- DAR 263: 44 (EH 88206488)
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3209,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3209.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 9