To John Lubbock 27 [October 1862]1
Down Bromley your letter went to Dover. Kent
27th
My dear Lubbock.
Many thanks for your note.2 I hope & expect to be well enough on Friday to see you. I presume 7o oclock will be the best hour for you.—3 If I shd. be bad, I would send over to Lamas4 on Friday afternoon. I cannot say much for several of us; for we have had a touch of Influenza5
Ever yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Hopes to be well enough on Friday to see JL.
Several of the family have had influenza.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3783
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3783,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3783.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10