From John Lubbock 20 July [1869]1
15, Lombard Street, E.C.
20 July
Dear Mr. Darwin
Mr Powell has asked me to subscribe to build him a house at Down & I feel rather in a difficulty.2
It seems that about £1700 is required. The Ecclesiastical Commissioner would give £700, he thinks he could get £290 from the Queen Anne’s Bounty Fund, £150 from a building society, & his own friends would do something.3
What do you think about it?
Believe me | yours most sincerely | John Lubbock
C Darwin Esq | &c &c &c
Footnotes
Bibliography
Church dictionary: A church dictionary. Edited by Walter Farquhar Hook and William Richard Wood Stephens. 14th edition. London: Murray. 1887.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Has been asked by Henry Powell [new vicar of Down] for help to build a house at Down; asks for CD’s advice.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6838
- From
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Lombard St, 15
- Source of text
- DAR 170: 74
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6838,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6838.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17
