To E. F. Lubbock 18 July [1878]
Summary
EFL’s account of what CD has done in natural history is full and accurate and could not have been done better. He has added the titles of his later books and the name of his maternal grandfather [Josiah Wedgwood] of whom he is proud.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Date: | 18 July [1878] |
| Classmark: | Dr N. Hammond (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13824 |
From E. F. Lubbock [1 October 1866]
Summary
Herbert Spencer is staying with the Lubbocks and would much like to see CD.
| Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Oct 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4728 |
From Ellen Frances Lubbock to H. E. Darwin [28 July? 1866]
Summary
John Lubbock wants a copy of Origin (4th ed.) for Philip Norman.
| Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | [28 July? 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5204 |
From Ellen Frances Lubbock [before 31 August 1868]
Summary
Sven Nilsson may visit John Lubbock.
Norwich [BAAS] meeting was most successful.
| Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 31 Aug 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6338 |
To Ellen Frances Lubbock [26 September 1869?]
Summary
Would have liked to come to lunch, but has been talking so much to Hooker that he has no strength left.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Date: | [26 Sept 1869?] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6669 |
From E. F. Lubbock [after 24 February 1871]
Summary
Verses on the Origin and Descent.
| Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 24 Feb 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7419 |
From E. F. Lubbock [18 November 1870]
Summary
John Lubbock has nearly finished his Thysanura book [Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura (1873)].
| Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [18 Nov 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7789 |
From E. F. Lubbock [after 7 April 1873?]
Summary
Observations on her pet pug.
| Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 7 Apr 1873?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8699 |
From E. F. Lubbock [before 7 April 1873]
Summary
Is trying to persuade "our friend" [T. H. Huxley?] to accept a gift.
| Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 7 Apr 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8833 |
To E. F. Lubbock [after 24 February 1871]
Summary
Thanks for verses on Origin and Descent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Date: | [after 24 Feb 1871] |
| Classmark: | Lubbock family (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9794F |
From E. F. Lubbock [after 2 July] 1875
Summary
A poem on Insectivorous Plants.
| Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 2 July] 1875 |
| Classmark: | Lubbock family (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10039F |
To E. F. Lubbock [1 October 1866]
Summary
"… Mr Herbert Spencer. I will call tomorrow about half past 12".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Date: | [1 Oct 1866] |
| Classmark: | Henry Bristow (dealer) (Catalogue 265) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13863 |
From Ellen Frances Lubbock to Emma Darwin [January 1862]
Summary
Trying to persuade CD to visit JL.
| Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [Jan 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170.1: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3368 |
From Ellen Frances Lubbock [27 August – 1 September 1865]
Summary
JL is in France with J. Steenstrup.
| Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27 Aug – 1 Sept 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4603 |
From Ellen Frances Lubbock [1867–8?]
Summary
Has marked a page from Adam Bede which may be relevant to CD’s work on expression.
| Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1867–8?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 227–228 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7065 |
From E. F. Lubbock to Emma Darwin [c. 29 November 1873]
Summary
Wants the Anthropological Society renamed the Ethnological Society. Is trying to raise funds toward payment of the Society’s debt.
| Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 29 Nov 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8700 |
From E. F. Lubbock [1873?]
Summary
Observations on her pet cat.
| Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1873?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8701 |
From John Lubbock and E. F. Lubbock 11 November [1868]
Summary
Further arrangements for polling. Everything looks well. [Ellen Lubbock notes, "he is too sanguine – ".]
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury; Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Nov [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6456 |
From A. M. Lane Fox to E. F. Lubbock 25 July [1875]
Summary
Recounts the removal and regrowth of her son’s extra digit; her grandfather showed the same condition.
| Author: | Alice Margaret Stanley; Alice Margaret Lane Fox; Alice Margaret Pitt-Rivers |
| Addressee: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Date: | 25 July [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 170 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10093 |
| letter | (19) |
| Hordern, E. F. | (14) |
| Lubbock, E. F. | (14) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Lane Fox, A. M. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Hordern, E. F. | (5) |
| Lubbock, E. F. | (5) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Hordern, E. F. | (19) |
| Lubbock, E. F. | (19) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
