From John Lubbock 14 October 1863
15, Lombard Street. E.C.
14 Oct 1863
My dear Mr. Darwin
I have undertaken to write a little notice for the N.H.R. of Huxley’s Lectures to working Men on O. of S.1
If I remember right the Record was particularly ridiculous about you2 Can you give me a reference to the article or by chance lend me the thing itself. Any hints or references to any particularly good or bad point in any review of you would be thankfully accepted.
I hope that you are better, but heard a poor account of you yesterday from Hooker.3 You have of course heard of the loss which he, poor fellow, has had;4 we are going together to St. Acheul on Saturday,5 but I expect to be back on Monday.
I am longing for a good talk with you, & am dear Mr Darwin with kind regards to Mrs Darwin & all your family,
Yours affec | John Lubbock
C Darwin Esq
I send this to Down, having forgotten your present address6
Footnotes
Bibliography
[Lubbock, John.] 1864b. Huxley’s lectures on the origin of species. Natural History Review n.s. 4: 37–43.
Newspaper press directory: The newspaper press directory and advertiser’s guide. The newspaper press directory … A directory of the class papers and periodicals. London: C. Michell. 1856–1900.
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
Is working on a notice for the Natural History Review [n.s. 4 (1864): 37–43] of Huxley’s lectures to working men on the origin of species.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4320
- From
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Lombard St, 15
- Source of text
- DAR 170: 41
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4320,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4320.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11
