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From John Lubbock   2 September 1864

15, Lombard Street. E.C.

2 Sep./64

My dear Mr Darwin

Could you kindly lend me the 1st. & 3rd. Vols. of Fitzroy?1 If you would send it to High Elms2 for me any time, they would forward it.

I hope you keep on improving.

Believe me, dear Mr. Darwin, | Yours affec | John Lubbock

C Darwin Esq

Footnotes

Robert FitzRoy edited the Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty’s ships Adventure and Beagle (Narrative). Volume 1 covered the first expedition, 1826–30, and Volume 3 was CD’s Journal and remarks, which was also published separately as Journal of researches.
The grounds of Down House bordered the High Elms estate, home of Lubbock’s father, John William Lubbock. Lubbock lived in Chislehurst, Kent, about five miles north of High Elms.

Bibliography

Journal and remarks: Journal and remarks. 1832–1836. By Charles Darwin. Vol. 3 of Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty’s ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle’s circumnavigation of the globe. London: Henry Colburn. 1839. [Separately published as Journal of researches.]

Narrative: Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty’s ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836. [Edited by Robert FitzRoy.] 3 vols. and appendix. London: Henry Colburn. 1839.

Summary

Wishes to borrow volumes 1 and 3 of Narrative [vol. 1 by Capt. P. P. King, vol. 3 by CD].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-4606
From
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
London, Lombard St, 15
Source of text
DAR 170: 47
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4606,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4606.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12

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