To John Lubbock 29 [May 1860]
Summary
Local affairs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 29 [May 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 40 (EH 88206484) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2817 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To John Lubbock 29 [May 1860] …
- … Charles Robert Darwin Down 29 [May 1860] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
- … by the relationship to the letter to John Lubbock, 25 May [1860] . Probably Thomas Selwood …
- … acting as curate. See letter to John Lubbock, 25 May [1860] . CD had been treasurer of the …
To John Lubbock 28 November [1860]
Summary
Praise for a paper on the Entomostraca by Lubbock (Lubbock 1862). Thanks for the compliment paid to the Origin and for his general comments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 28 Nov [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 40b (EH 88206449) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3001 |
To John Lubbock 25 May [1860]
Summary
Local affairs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 25 May [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 32 (EH 88206481) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2815 |
To John Lubbock [4 July 1860]
Summary
Birth of JL’s child.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [4 July 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 38 (EH 88206482) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2859 |
To John Lubbock 20 July [1860]
Summary
Is puzzled what to think about the [Natural History] Review. Doubts that it is wise that JL and Huxley should give up time to it: "if it would stop your doing original work you ought not, even pro bono publico, undertake the new work".
Reports on Henrietta’s health.
The Quarterly Review [108 (1860): 255–64] quizzes CD "capitally" and he read it with thorough enjoyment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 20 July [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 40a (EH 88206447) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2874 |
To John Lubbock [18 November 1860]
Summary
Drawing up paper on Drosera but will not publish till results are tested.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [18 Nov 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 39 (EH 88206483) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2988 |
From John Lubbock [after 28 April 1860?]
Summary
Gives CD references to papers on eyes of lower animals.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 28 Apr 1860?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 48: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2394 |
To John Lubbock 1 [and 2] August [1861]
Summary
Has visited T. V. Wollaston, who is working hard but lives too solitary a life.
There are further legal complications with William Darwin’s partnership and CD’s solicitor wants to call on JL.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 1 and 2 Aug 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 49 (EH 88206493) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3224 |
To John Lubbock 8 March [1859]
Summary
Wants examples of insects (especially Diptera) in which embryo resembles adult, to show that the metamorphic stages may be lost.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 8 Mar [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 29 (EH 88206478) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2426 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … manual, and directory 1859 and 1860. John William Lubbock , John Lubbock’s father was …
- … John Lubbock , 16 [March 1859] and 21 [March 1859] . Ellen Frances Lubbock . The Mid-Kent Railway Company had financed a short railway extension from Beckenham to Lewisham, along what was known as the Farnborough extension. The line had opened for business in 1857, but Farnborough never became a station on it. In 1859, there was a movement to finance a further extension from the Crystal Palace station, near Penge, to Norwood, which may have included Farnborough. The line was not constructed due to financial disagreement with the Brighton Railway Company in 1860. …
From John Lubbock 22 and 26 March 1865
Summary
JL’s MS at printer’s [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Apologises for failure to post letter.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 and 26 Mar 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4791 |
To John Lubbock 5 April [1863]
Summary
JL’s review of Lyell’s Antiquity of man (1863) [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 211–19].
Owen’s review of W. B. Carpenter in Athenæum [28 Mar 1863, pp. 417–19].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 5 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4075 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1860 and Correspondence vol. 8, Appendix VI. The popular and controversial preacher John Cumming was the author of Moses right and Bishop Colenso wrong ( Cumming 1863 ). In a postscript to his review, Lubbock …
- … John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. London: Macmillan. Marginalia : Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of Nicholas W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990. [Wilberforce, Samuel. ] 1860. [ …
From John Lubbock to Emma Darwin 6 November 1863
Summary
Returns a borrowed extract from the [Zoological?] Record.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Nov 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4331 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Lubbock, John | (3) |
| Lubbock, John | (9) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
