From John Lubbock 28 September [1867]1
High Elms
28 Sep
Dear Mr. Darwin
I return you with many thanks Haliburtons ingenious paper, & send you a paper which gives almost at full length something of my own which is partly in answer to it.2
Will you kindly return me the newspaper.
I hope you have been pretty well & that the Book is making satisfactory progress.3
We had a capital meeting at Dundee & I have been since in the Orkneys & Shetlands.4
Ever | Yours affecy | John Lubbock
C Darwin Esq
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Haliburton, Robert Grant. 1863. New materials for the history of man, derived from a comparison of the customs and superstitions of nations. Halifax, Nova Scotia: n.p.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Returns R. G. Haliburton’s paper ["The unity of the human race proved by the universality of certain superstitions connected with sneezing", reprinted in New materials for the history of man (1863)] and sends one of his own partly in answer to it ["The early condition of man", Anthropol. Rev. 6 (1868): 1–14].
Capital BAAS meeting at Dundee.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5635
- From
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- High Elms
- Source of text
- DAR 170: 58
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5635,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5635.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 15