From John Lubbock 16 January 1867
High Elms
16 Jan/67
My dear Mr. Darwin
My brother in law Robert Birkbeck1 is going to spend some months in Corsica, & he thinks that Murray might possibly like some notes with reference to a Handbook for the Island.2
He is anxious therefore for a note of introduction to him & I thought I might take the liberty of asking you to give him one.
If you would not mind adding, on my authority, that he is a man who will take pains to get accurate information, & whose statements would I think be thoroughly reliable, I should be very much obliged.
Hoping you are better again | I remain, dear Mr. Darwin, | Very sincerely yours | John Lubbock
C. Darwin Esq
Footnotes
Bibliography
Hutchinson, Horace Gordon. 1914. Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. London: Macmillan.
Summary
JL’s brother-in-law [Robert Birkbeck] would like a note of introduction to John Murray.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5366
- From
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- High Elms
- Source of text
- DAR 170: 54
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5366,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5366.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 15