From John Lubbock 20 February 1863

15, Lombard Street. E.C.

20 Feb/63

My dear M^r. Darwin

I could not answer your kind note at once, my plans being very undecided.¹

If however it would suit you I should much like to dine with you on Sunday.²

Will you kindly send me a line to Chiselhurst.³

Yours affec— | John Lubbock

C Darwin Esq

Footnotes

The letter to Lubbock has not been found.

Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242) that John Lubbock dined at Down House on Sunday 22 February 1863.

Lubbock resided in Chislehurst, Kent, a village about five miles north of Down.

Dining arrangements.

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4002,” accessed on 3 March 2021, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-4002.xml

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