To John Lubbock 1 [and 2] August [1861]
Summary
Has visited T. V. Wollaston, who is working hard but lives too solitary a life.
There are further legal complications with William Darwin’s partnership and CD’s solicitor wants to call on JL.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 1 and 2 Aug 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 49 (EH 88206493) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3224 |
To W. E. Darwin 6 [June 1861]
Summary
Writes regarding the possibility of banking partnership for WED; second note arranges a meeting between the involved parties in London.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 6 [June 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 69–70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3178 |
To W. E. Darwin [25 May 1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [25 May 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3157 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … W. E. Darwin, [4 March 1860] ). See letter to John Lubbock, [25 May 1861] and letter to …
- … John Lubbock in May and June of 1861. All pertain to negotiations carried out in connection with William’s appointment as partner in a Southampton bank. Postmarks on envelopes that contained three of the letters, preserved in DAR 210.6, confirm the dating. Lubbock’s ‘friend’ was George Atherley , partner in the Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southampton, for which Lubbock’s bank, Robarts, Lubbock & Co . , were the London agents ( Banking almanac 1861). Prior to 1860, …
To W. E. Darwin [26 May 1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [26 May 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3160 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 [April 1861]
Summary
Lieut. F. W. Hutton’s original review [Geologist 4 (1861): 132–6, 183–8] understands that mutability cannot be directly proved.
CD met Bentham at Linnean Society and asked him to write up his views on mutability.
Opinion of Owen.
Conversation with Lyell on antiquity of man.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 [Apr 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3098 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … John Lubbock , Michael Pakenham Edgeworth , and George Charles Wallich . Since the publication of Origin , CD and Hooker had been interested in learning Bentham’s opinion of CD’s views on the origin of species. See Correspondence vol. 7, letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 December [1859] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, [20 December 1859] ; and ibid . , vol. 8, letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 March [1860] . …
letter | (5) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |