From John Lubbock 6 November [1868]
Summary
Arrangements for polling.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Nov [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6449 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Lubbock, John Darwin, C. R. …
- … shall still be very glad of the carriage afterwards. Yours most sincerely | John Lubbock …
- … From John Lubbock 6 November [1868] …
- … DAR 170: 66 John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury London, Lombard St, 15 6 Nov [ …
- … between this letter and the letter from John Lubbock, 2 November [1868] . CD’s reply to …
- … has not been found (see letter from John Lubbock, 2 November [1868] ). Bromley, a market …
From John Lubbock 20 February 1868
Summary
Found [Variation] full of interest. Has not yet made up his mind about Pangenesis; wants to hear what can be said against it.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 63 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5901 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Lubbock, John Darwin, C. R. …
- … From John Lubbock 20 February 1868 …
- … DAR 170: 63 John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury London, Lombard St, 15 20 Feb …
- … M r . Darwin | Yours most sincerely | John Lubbock P.S. I send you the Zeits. Desmarest I …
- … See letter to John Lubbock, 15 February [1868] and n. …
- … 8. See letter to John Lubbock, 15 February [1868] and n. 10. CD had discussed the …
- … wissenschaftliche Zoologie (see letter to John Lubbock, 15 February [1868] and nn. 5 and …
From John Lubbock 19 June [1868]
Summary
JL’s Royal Institution lectures.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 June [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6252 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Lubbock, John Darwin, C. R. …
- … From John Lubbock 19 June [1868] …
- … they end on Saturday. Believe me, dear M r Darwin, | Yours most sincerely | John Lubbock …
- … DAR 170: 64 John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury London, Lombard St, 15 19 …
- … by the relationship between this letter and the letter to John Lubbock, 15 June [1868] . …
- … See letter to John Lubbock, 15 June [1868] . In CD’s Account books–banking account (Down …
To John Lubbock 15 February [1868]
Summary
Returns Anthropological Review.
Asks to borrow Desmarest on Crustacea [Considérations générales sur la classe des crustacés (1825)].
Has been reading JL’s address to the Entomological Society [Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 3d. ser. 5 (1865–7): cxiii–cxxxi].
Would like to hear JL’s conclusion for or against Pangenesis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 15 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Hutchinson 1914, 1: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5881 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John …
- … To John Lubbock 15 February [1868] …
- … Charles Robert Darwin Down 15 Feb [1868] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
- … wissenschaftliche Zoologie 17: 105–84. Lubbock, John. 1868. The president’s address. [Read …
- … between this letter and the letter from John Lubbock, 12 February [1868] . The date given …
- … Mensch ( Rolle 1866 ). See letter from John Lubbock, 12 February [1868] and n. 3. CD had …
- … See also Correspondence vol. 17, letter to John Lubbock, 3 August 1869 . CD refers to his …
- … Europe during the Stone Age. Edited by John Lubbock. 3d edition. London: Longmans, Green, …
- … Horace Gordon. 1914. Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. London: Macmillan. …
- … John Robertson , not Richard Owen ([Robertson] 1868a). There was a review of Nilsson 1868 , a work of Scandinavian ethnography with an introduction by Lubbock, …
From John Lubbock 2 November [1868]
Summary
Would like to borrow CD’s carriage on polling day.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Nov [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6443 |
From John Lubbock 30 January 1868
Summary
Many thanks for the book [Variation].
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5818 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Lubbock, John Darwin, C. R. …
- … From John Lubbock 30 January 1868 …
- … DAR 170: 61 John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury London, Lombard St, 15 30 Jan …
- … I shall read with great interest— Even the small print. Yours very truly | John Lubbock …
- … Lubbock’s name appears on CD’s presentation list for the book (see Correspondence vol. 16, Appendix IV). To reduce the length of the book, CD suggested to his publisher, John …
From John Lubbock 26 November [1868]
Summary
JL’s failure to be elected to Parliament.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Nov [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6478 |
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 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Lubbock, John Hordern, E. F. Lubbock, E. F. Darwin, C. R. …
- … From John Lubbock and E. F. Lubbock 11 November [1868] …
- … DAR 170: 67 John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury Ellen Frances Hordern/Ellen …
- … looks well. Yours very sincerely | John Lubbock I’m afraid he is too sanguine— EFL C …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter from John Lubbock, 6 November [1868] . …
- … See letter from John Lubbock, 6 November [1868] and n. 2. Joseph Parslow . The postscript …
From John Lubbock 8 December 1868
Summary
Thanks for the pamphlets; JL’s paper, "Primitive condition of man" [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 6 (1868): 328].
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Dec 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6494 |
To John Lubbock 15 June [1868]
Summary
Has been looking at the school accounts. Has any interest been paid to S. J. O’H. Horsman this year? CD will keep accounts temporarily; he has not yet received from Horsman the balance in hand from last year.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 15 June [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6245 |
From John Lubbock 12 February [1868]
Summary
Discusses [Fritz?] Müller’s confusion about ova and pseudova; JL’s Daphnia paper [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 79–100; see 1979] first demonstrated their structural identity.
Points out a misleading statement in Variation.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5868 |
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 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Sven Nilsson may visit John Lubbock. Norwich [BAAS] meeting was most successful. …
- … meeting in Norwich under the presidency of John Lubbock ( J. D. Hooker 1868 , p. lix). …
- … 1868 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). John Lubbock probably invited to his home, High …
- … John will bring them to see you. We had a most successful meeting at Norwich, & the “Prehistoric” was the most crowded section of all. Believe me, dear M r . Darwin, always yours most sincerely | Ellen F Lubbock …
From J. D. Hooker 26 November 1868
Summary
Anxious to hear how the Lubbocks take the disastrous termination to their hopes. [Sir John Lubbock was defeated in the Parliamentary election on 25 Nov 1868.]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 242 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6477 |
To J. B. Innes 2 September 1868
Summary
Surprised and pleased JBI liked his "big book" [Variation].
Luckily, naturalists do not seem to think he has committed suicide with the work.
CD wants to turn over the school accounts to John Robinson [curate of Down]. Writes of other parish news.
Will vote in person for Sir John Lubbock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 2 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6345 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … curate of Down]. Writes of other parish news. Will vote in person for Sir John Lubbock. …
- … Horace Gordon. 1914. Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. London: Macmillan. …
- … John Lubbock was standing for election to Parliament as a Liberal party candidate for West …
- … John Smith was a farmer at Down Court. CD refers to John and Ellen Frances Lubbock . …
From Sven Nilsson to J. D. Hooker 25 October 1868
Summary
His correspondents in Lapland will provide CD with the information on reindeer horns. Refers him to Linnaeus, Amoenitates academicae, vol. 4.
Author: | Sven Nilsson |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6430 |
From Roland Trimen 20 March [1868]
Author: | Roland Trimen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 86: A92–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6030 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1868 meeting of the Linnean Society . John Lubbock and Alfred Russel Wallace (see letter …
- … Lubbock & Wallace spoke ably, as well on the special subject as on the general question. But in fact there was no one who advanced anything worth answering on the other side, and what little was said was very effectually disposed of by the remarks of Wallace & Sir John. …
From J. B. Innes 4 December 1868
Summary
Full background on the difficulties of the vicarage of Down.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Dec 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6492 |
From J. B. Innes 13 June 1868
Summary
Writes about difficulties in which S. J. O. Horsman, curate at Down, has involved himself and others. Horsman has said he would resign. JBI offers to give up his interests in the living at Down.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 June 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6241 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 February 1868
Summary
Rejoices over news of Variation sales.
Pall Mall Gazette review [7 (1868): 555, 636, 652] is undoubtedly by G. H. Lewes [see 5951].
Dinner at Lyells’.
Dean Stanley favours a monument to Faraday in Westminster Abbey.
Perceval Wright is back from Seychelles and reports on plants he collected.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 198–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5874 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 June [1868]
Summary
Thanks for name of grass.
Plans to go to Isle of Wight on 17 July.
Frank cannot come to Kew, as he will be reading this long vacation at Cambridge.
Delighted with Bentham’s Presidential Address [Linnean Society, 1868].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24 June [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 74–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6259 |
letter | (49) |
Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
Hooker, J. D. | (13) |
Lubbock, John | (9) |
Innes, J. B. | (4) |
Hordern, E. F. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (32) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Innes, J. B. | (3) |
Lubbock, John | (2) |
Stainton, H. T. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (48) |
Hooker, J. D. | (20) |
Lubbock, John | (11) |
Innes, J. B. | (7) |
Hordern, E. F. | (2) |