To John Lubbock [1871 or later]
Summary
All the inhabitants of Down hope JL will endeavour to induce the Post Office to improve the telegraph service.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [1871 or later] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 89 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7057 |
From John Lubbock 18 March [1871]
Summary
Comments on Descent [2: 358–60] especially on CD’s view that behaviour of lower animals is evidence against JL’s interpretation [of aboriginal promiscuity]. View on communal marriage.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 175–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7598 |
To John Lubbock 12 August [1871]
Summary
CD’s comments on proofs of JL’s book [Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura (1873)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 12 Aug [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 67 (EH 88206511) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7904 |
To John Lubbock 17 November 1871
Summary
Praises and comments on JL’s essay on insects ["Origin of insects", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. 11 (1873): 422–5].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 17 Nov 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 7 (EH 88205932) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8072 |
From Nevil Maskelyne to John Lubbock 3 December [1871]
Summary
Asks JL to obtain copies of CD’s botanical works for his wife.
| Author: | Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story; Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story-Maskelyne |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 3 Dec [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 260 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8091 |
Document type
| letter | (5) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Story, Nevil | (1) |
| Story-Maskelyne, Nevil | (1) |
Addressee
| Lubbock, John | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Lubbock, John | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Story, Nevil | (1) |
| Story-Maskelyne, Nevil | (1) |
