To John Lubbock 3 April 1874
Summary
Thanks for JL’s willingness to sell land.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 3 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 9 (EH 88205934) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9386 |
From John Lubbock 27 February 1874
Summary
The land CD wants to buy probably belongs to his marriage-settlement and would thus be difficult to sell.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 8b (EH 88205933) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9318 |
To John Lubbock 15 December [1874]
Summary
Asks JL to send ten shillings for the Down Friendly Club.
Has just read JL’s paper on bees and wasps [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 12 (1876): 110–39]. Is astonished by their stupidity. The experiments on colour are especially good. Suggests JL examine their retinas; sends enclosure [missing] on eyes of reptiles and birds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 15 Dec [1874] |
| Classmark: | University of Liverpool Library (Rathbone XXI.12.3: 4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9760 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To John Lubbock 15 December [1874] …
- … Charles Robert Darwin Down 15 Dec [1874] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
- … Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Lubbock, John. 1874–7. Observations on the habits of …
- … Lubbock 1874–7 (see n. 3, below). CD had founded the Down Friendly Club, a local savings and insurance society to which Lubbock was a regular donor ( Moore 1985 , p. 466; Correspondence vol. 7, letter to John Lubbock, 14 December [1859] ). The first part of Lubbock’s four-part paper on his observations of ants, bees, and wasps ( Lubbock 1874– …
To John Lubbock 26 September [1874]
Summary
JL’s two articles in Nature ["Common wild flowers", 10 (1874): 402–6, 422–6].
Cautions against C. K. Sprengel’s notion of bees’ being deceived by nectarless nectary.
Colour of calyces.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 26 Sept [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 10 (EH 88205935) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9659 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … To John Lubbock 26 September [1874] …
- … Charles Robert Darwin Down 26 Sept [1874] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
- … Lubbock 1874 . CD refers to Lubbock’s two-part article ‘Common wild flowers considered in relation to insects’ ( Lubbock 1874 ). See letter to John Lubbock, [before 17 September 1874] …
To John Lubbock 8 April [1874]
Summary
Encloses a statement and circular he has been asked to send to JL.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 8 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8283 |
To John Lubbock 23 February 1874
Summary
CD wishes to acquire a piece of JL’s land.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 23 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 8a (EH 88205933) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9310 |
To John Lubbock [before 17 September 1874]
Summary
Sends MS intended some day for the Viola tricolor section of Cross and self-fertilisation [pp. 123–8] to be used by JL in his British wild flowers (1875).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [before 17 Sept 1874] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 49645:107) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9618 |
From John Lubbock 2 April 1874
Summary
Is willing to sell the land CD wants for £300.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 198: 127 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9385F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From John Lubbock 2 April 1874 …
- … See letter from John Lubbock, 27 February 1874 . CD wanted to buy a piece of land that he …
- … 198: 127 John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury London, Lombard St, 15 2 Apr 1874 …
- … 1874. (Copy) Dear M r . Darwin, I find that I can sell the piece of land you wish for, & shall be happy to do so if you are still desirous to have it. My agent writes me that he estimates the value at £300 Believe me, | Yours very truly | John Lubbock. …
To John Lubbock, P. L. Sclater, Charles Lyell, W. B. Carpenter, and Michael Foster [7 April 1874]
Summary
Circular requesting recipients to sign an enclosed [missing] statement [relating to appeal for Naples Zoological Station] if they approve of it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury; Philip Lutley Sclater; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; William Benjamin Carpenter; Michael Foster |
| Date: | [7 Apr 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C52–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9384 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Lubbock, John | (2) |
| Lubbock, John | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
| Foster, Michael | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Lubbock, John | |
| Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
| Foster, Michael | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Sclater, P. L. | (1) |
| 1874 | (9) |
