From John Lubbock 28 February 1863
15, Lombard Street. E.C.
28 Feb/63
My dear Mr. Darwin
Unless I hear from you to the contrary I will come up to dinner on Monday.1
Yours affec | John Lubbock
Footnotes
Lubbock probably did not dine with the Darwins on 2 March 1863, as CD was ill; Emma Darwin recorded his condition in her diary (DAR 242): he was ‘sick several times’ during the course of the week, ‘faint in night’, and ‘languid & heavy’ every morning. Charles and Mary Elizabeth Lyell had been invited to stay at Down House for a few days at this time, from 1 to 4 March 1863, but their visit was cancelled (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 March [1863]).
Summary
Will come to dine on Monday unless he hears to the contrary.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4017
- From
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Lombard St, 15
- Source of text
- DAR 170: 37
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4017,” accessed on 24 March 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4017.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11
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