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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

Matches: 4 hits

  • Lubbock, John Darwin, C. R. …
  • … From John Lubbock   2 November [1868] …
  • … DAR 170: 65 John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury unstated 2 Nov [1868] Charles …
  • … a great help if you could kindly do so. Believe me | Yours most sincerely | John Lubbock

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

Matches: 4 hits

  • Lubbock, John Darwin, C. R. …
  • … From John Lubbock   26 November [1868] …
  • … DAR 170: 68 John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury London, Lombard St, 15 26 …
  • … I had quite an ovation. Ever, dear M r Darwin, | Yours most sincerely | John Lubbock

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

Matches: 4 hits

  • Lubbock, John Darwin, C. R. …
  • … From John Lubbock   8 December 1868 …
  • … DAR 170: 69 John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury London, Lombard St, 15 8 Dec …
  • … effects of the election. Believe me, dear M r Darwin | Yours most sincerely | John Lubbock

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

Matches: 3 hits

  • … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John
  • … To John Lubbock   15 June [1868] …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin Down 15 June [1868] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …

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

Matches: 4 hits

  • Lubbock, John Darwin, C. R. …
  • … From John Lubbock   12 February [1868] …
  • … DAR 170: 62 John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury High Elms 12 Feb [1868] …
  • … M r Darwin, | Yours most sincerely | John Lubbock End of letter : ‘p 360 [ pencil ]; & Sir …

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

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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

Matches: 2 hits

  • … disastrous termination to their hopes. [Sir John Lubbock was defeated in the Parliamentary …
  • … Hooker refers to John Lubbock’s recent defeat in the general election (see letter to J.   …

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

Matches: 3 hits

  • … 1866–7 . In Lubbock 1869 , pp.  59–73, John Lubbock disagreed with Nilsson’s views on the …
  • … Europe during the Stone Age. Edited by John Lubbock. 3d edition. London: Longmans, Green, …
  • … Stone Age ( Nilsson 1868 ); see letter to John Lubbock, 15 February [1868] and n.  10. See …

From Roland Trimen   20 March [1868]

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Summary

On attraction of males by females in moths. H. T. Stainton mentions a case.

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

Matches: 2 hits

  • … In the recent parliamentary election John Lubbock had been a candidate for the Liberal …
  • … 1868 ). John Warburton Robinson . John Lubbock . Charles Thomas Longley , the archbishop …

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

Matches: 2 hits

  • … developed End of letter : ‘Organ | Sir John Lubbock | (Interest) | Bryson | [3 or 4 words …
  • … 1985 , pp.  468–9. Innes refers to John Lubbock . Innes had bought the advowson of Down ( …

From J. D. Hooker   13 February 1868

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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

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Lubbock on 9 February (see letter from John Lubbock, 12 February [1868] . Hooker refers to …
  • … 1868a). High Elms, the home of John and Ellen Frances Lubbock , was a mile and a half from …

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

Matches: 1 hit

  • … n.  6. William Powell Rodney had married John Lubbock’s sister, Diana Hotham Lubbock . CD …
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