From John Lubbock 10 January 1864
Lamas, | Chiselhurst. | S.E.
10 Jan/64.
My dear Mr. Darwin
I was right glad to see your hand writing & to hear a better account of you even though the improvement was not material.1
I’m sorry that you don’t think I praised Huxley enough;2 it was far from my intention not to do so, & you must remember that much of the praise of you was merely a quotation from him.3
My little volume of Essays will be in great part a republication from the Natural History Review, with two introductory chapters taken from my lectures.4 I should dearly like to have talked it over with you, to know whether you thought it a good investment of time. However now that you have begun to mend I shall hope to be allowed to see you ere long.
I met Miss Darwin & Willy at High Elms5 not long ago & was glad to find him thoroughly interested in his business, and on good terms with his partner.6
Do not bother yourself to write, but let me see you as soon as you are quite well enough, & believe me always | Your most affect | John Lubbock
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1978. Charles Darwin: a companion. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
Hutchinson, Horace Gordon. 1914. Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. London: Macmillan.
[Lubbock, John.] 1864b. Huxley’s lectures on the origin of species. Natural History Review n.s. 4: 37–43.
Marginalia: Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of Nicholas W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990.
Summary
JL’s article on Huxley’s "Lectures [to working men]".
Planning a volume of essays [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4384
- From
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Lamas, Chislehurst
- Source of text
- DAR 170: 44
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4384,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4384.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12