To John Lubbock 19 November [1864]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Nov. 19th
My dear Lubbock
It is a horrid shame to trouble you, busy as you are. But I am in perplexity. I have had circular about shares in Reader Coy.—2 Now it happens that I have taken a rather large nor of shares in guaranteed Penarth Ry. Coy.,3 & the calls have come quicker than I expected & I shall have to borrow from my Bankers, which I hate doing, so you will see that I am very unwilling to take any shares in Reader, & shd. in any case take very few. But I wish the Reader well, & want to know whether the concern is much in want of money, & whether anyone takes so little as only 1 or 2 shares.— Will you kindly advise me a little?4
I was so sincerely sorry not to see you on the two Sundays, but I have had extra bad times.5 Cordial thanks my kind friend, for your note congratulating me about the Copley medal.6
Farewell— | Yours affecty | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
About buying shares.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4674
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 263: 62 (EH 88206506)
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4674,” accessed on 28 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4674.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12