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From John Lubbock 12 June [1865]¹

Chislehurst

June 12

My dear M^r. Darwin

Many thanks for your very kind letter.² I am delighted with your praise, & am especially glad that you like the last Chapter about which I was a little afraid.³ The Morning Advertiser devoted a leading article the other morning to abusing me for writing the book & the Times for reviewing it favourably.⁴

You do not mention how you are. I hope the ice Continues to do you good.⁵

Ever dear M^r Darwin | Yours affec | John Lubbock

C Darwin Esq

Footnotes

The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to John Lubbock, 11 June [1865].

See letter to John Lubbock, 11 June [1865].

Lubbock refers to chapter 14 (pp. 473–92) of Lubbock 1865 (see letter to John Lubbock, 11 June [1865] and n. 4).

The review in The Times appeared on 6 June 1865, p. 9. The reference to the ‘Morning Advertiser’ has not been identified.

CD had been undertaking an ice treatment for his illness under the direction of John Chapman; see letter to John Chapman, 7 June 1865 and n. 1.

Summary

Delighted at CD’s praise of his book [Prehistoric times (1865)].

Letter details

Letter no.: DCP-LETT-4860
From: John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To: Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from: Chislehurst
Source of text: DAR 170: 45
Physical description: ALS 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4860,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4860.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13

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