From John Lubbock 19 June [1868]1
15, Lombard Street. E.C.
19 June
My dear Mr. Darwin
I am happy to say that no payment of interest on account of Down School appears to have been made this year.2
I send you a cheque for the Balance & am glad to hear that you have got the matter in hand.3
Next Sunday we shall be away, but if you could come the Sunday after we should be delighted.
I have been hard worked lately with my Royal Institution lectures, but they end on Saturday.4
Believe me, dear Mr Darwin, | Yours most sincerely | John Lubbock
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to John Lubbock, 15 June [1868].
In CD’s Account books–banking account (Down House MS), there is an entry for £11 2s. 2d. in the receipts column, dated 20 June 1868, and headed, ‘J. Lubbock for National Down School’.
Lubbock gave four lectures, ‘On savages’, on Thursdays and Saturdays between 4 and 13 June 1868 (Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain 5 (1866–9): 198.
Summary
JL’s Royal Institution lectures.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6252
- From
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Lombard St, 15
- Source of text
- DAR 170: 64
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6252,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6252.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
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