To John Lubbock 23 January [1862]1
Down
Jan. 23.
My dear Lubbock
At last I am pretty well after having lost three weeks & having had 16 in my household ill! It is an age since we have met, & I shd. much enjoy seeing you.2 I would come over any day to your luncheon & not stay so long as last time & then I am sure it would not tire me; though my movements must always be doubtful, but I would come punctually to your luncheon (my dinner) or not at all.— Or how would it suit you to come & dine & sleep here on Saturday or any day & take your chance of my being pretty well. Meet we must & it really makes to me no difference: settle whichever plan suits you, who have so little time to spare, best.— By the way I cannot come till after next Tuesday; any day after that would suit me to come to you or most gladly to see you here—
I was very sorry I could not read your paper which you sent,3 but I was downright ill with fever.—
I have been just reading your paper in N. H. Review, & have been much interested in it.—4 How well you write & how you find time to do all that you do, is simply marvellous.—
Mrs. Darwin, though very little fit for exertion, has gone to London for a couple of days.—5
I hope Mrs Lubbock is strong again.6
Yours most truly | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Hutchinson, Horace Gordon. 1914. Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. London: Macmillan.
Summary
Has had 16 in the household ill.
Wants to meet JL.
Praises JL’s paper ["Ancient lake-habitations of Switzerland", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 26–51].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3409
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 263
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3409,” accessed on 30 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3409.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10