From E. F. Lubbock [18 November 1870]1
Dear Mr. Darwin
Could you come here to luncheon tomorrow? You don’t know how glad we should be. You will find here Mr. Forster, Mr. Arthur Russell, Mr. Hobhouse, & Lord E. Fitzmaurice,2 who would all think it a great privilege to meet you.
Please come, if you are well enough: John has nearly finished his Thysanura book—3
With kind regards to Mrs. Darwin, and all, I remain yours most sincerely | Ellen Lubbock
Footnotes
The date is established by an entry for 19 November 1870 in Arthur Russell’s diary (private collection); the entry reads, ‘I left for Orpington and High Elms | Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, Wm Forster (the Right Honorable) and Arthur Hobhouse came to dine’.
William Edward Forster, Arthur Hobhouse, and Edmond Fitzmaurice.
John Lubbock’s Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura was published by the Ray Society in 1873 (Lubbock 1873a); CD read proofs of the book in 1871 (see Correspondence vol. 19, letter to John Lubbock, 12 August [1871]). CD evidently did not attend the luncheon.
Summary
John Lubbock has nearly finished his Thysanura book [Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura (1873)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7789
- From
- Ellen Frances Hordern/Ellen Frances Lubbock
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 170: 13
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7789,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7789.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24 (Supplement)
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