From John Lubbock 8 December 1868
15, Lombard Street. E.C.
8 Dec. 1868
Dear Mr Darwin
I am much obliged for your kind enquiries after Lady Lubbock1 who is I am thankful to say going on as well as possible.
Thanks also for the Pamphlets.2 That on relationship is very interesting. I have hinted at the same line of argument in my paper on the Primitive Condition of man, & went more into it in my lecture on marriage among savages.3
I quite believe that some of these curious habits are relics of even more degraded barbarism.
I will bring you the £2.10 next time I see you.
Does Mr Allen subscribe to the school?4
I have a bad cold & am more than usually stupid today, but otherwise feel no evil effects of the election.5
Believe me, dear Mr Darwin | Yours most sincerely | John Lubbock
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks for the pamphlets; JL’s paper, "Primitive condition of man" [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 6 (1868): 328].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6494
- From
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Lombard St, 15
- Source of text
- DAR 170: 69
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6494,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6494.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16