From Harriet Lubbock [April? 1866]1
My dear Mr Darwin
So many Thanks for yr kind Note.2 I am only just returned from Leicestersh or woud have written sooner. John & Ellen are away from home3 but I am sure will quite agree with you so I send you 3£ 1 for each of us.4 I hope dear Mrs Darwin is pretty well I heard she had been ill wh I was very sorry for.5 pray give her my very kind love—
I assure you all Lubbocks feel proud to get a Note from you & prize them so I can only thank you heartily for yours & hope you will believe me | Your much obliged | Harriet Lubbock
Footnotes
Bibliography
Browne, Janet. 2002. Charles Darwin. The power of place. Volume II of a biography. London: Pimlico.
Hutchinson, Horace Gordon. 1914. Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. London: Macmillan.
Moore, James Richard. 1985. Darwin of Down: the evolutionist as squarson-naturalist. In The Darwinian heritage, edited by David Kohn. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press in association with Nova Pacifica (Wellington, NZ).
Summary
Local matters.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4960
- From
- Harriet Hotham/Harriet Lubbock
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 170: 18
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4960,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4960.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14