106 Items
To John Lubbock [6 February 1859]
Summary
JL’s brother’s accident.
Thinks JL should tackle systematics of anomalous insects from studies of internal organs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [6 Feb 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 26 (EH 88206475) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2408 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John …
- … To John Lubbock [6 February 1859] …
- … Bibliography Lubbock, John. 1859. On the ova and pseudova of Insects. Philosophical …
- … Robert Darwin Moor Park [6 Feb 1859] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
- … has not been found. Beaumont William Lubbock , John Lubbock’s younger brother, had injured …
- … prior to publication (see letter to John Lubbock, [November 1858] ). Lubbock had touched …
- … in an earlier paper ( Lubbock 1857a ). See letter from John Lubbock, 8 February 1859 . …
To John Lubbock 8 March [1859]
Summary
Wants examples of insects (especially Diptera) in which embryo resembles adult, to show that the metamorphic stages may be lost.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 8 Mar [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 29 (EH 88206478) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2426 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John …
- … To John Lubbock 8 March [1859] …
- … William Lubbock , John Lubbock’s father was director of the Mid-Kent Railway and CD was a …
- … Charles Robert Darwin Down 8 Mar [1859] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
- … Dated by Lubbock’s reply ( letter from John Lubbock, 15 March 1859 ). …
- … See letter from John Lubbock, 8 February 1859 , which is now incomplete. A reference to …
- … selection ,pp. 573–4). See also letter to John Lubbock, 16 [March 1859] . CD did not use …
- … but cited Aphis instead ( Origin , p. 442). See letter from John Lubbock, 15 March 1859 , …
- … and letters to John Lubbock , 16 [March 1859] and 21 [March 1859] . …
- … Lubbock . The Mid-Kent Railway Company had financed a short railway extension from Beckenham to Lewisham, along what was known as the Farnborough extension. The line had opened for business in 1857, but Farnborough never became a station on it. In 1859, there was a movement to finance a further extension from the Crystal Palace station, near Penge, to Norwood, which may have included Farnborough. The line was not constructed due to financial disagreement with the Brighton Railway Company in 1860. See Bradshaw’s shareholders’ guide, railway manual, and directory 1859 and 1860. John …
To John Lubbock 11 February 1882
Summary
Sends four parts of Van Tieghem, and recommends Wiesner 1881.
Forgot to suggest that JL repeat experiments with bees and artifical flowers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 11 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | Private collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13677F |
To John Lubbock 3 April 1874
Summary
Thanks for JL’s willingness to sell land.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 3 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 9 (EH 88205934) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9386 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John …
- … To John Lubbock 3 April 1874 …
- … Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 Apr 1874 John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
- … See letter from John Lubbock, 2 April 1874 . CD’s letter to William Mackmurdo Hacon has …
- … William Denby was Lubbock’s solicitor (see letter from John Lubbock, 27 February 1874 ). …
To John Lubbock [8 June 1861]
Summary
Asks to meet JL for a final talk about the banking partnership for William Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [8 June 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 2 (EH 88205927) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3179 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John …
- … To John Lubbock [8 June 1861] …
- … Charles Robert Darwin Down [8 June 1861] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
- … charity, & a real charity it will be. — Sir John Lubbock put the whole case with admirable …
- … Darwin, 6 [June 1861] and the letter to John Lubbock, 6 June [1861] ). The eighth of June …
- … fell on a Saturday in 1861. See letter to John Lubbock, 6 June [1861] and n. …
- … 2. Lubbock’s father, John William Lubbock , was a partner in Robarts, Lubbock & Co . ( …
To John Lubbock 9 February [1859]
Summary
CD sees JL’s cases of same organs varying greatly in allied forms as a serious difficulty in regard to his own ideas.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 27 (EH 88206476) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2411 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John …
- … To John Lubbock 9 February [1859] …
- … Robert Darwin Moor Park 9 Feb [1859] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
- … science and religion. See letter from John Lubbock, 8 February 1859 and n. 3. This …
- … found. CD was to forward it to Wollaston (see letter to John Lubbock, [6 February 1859] ). …
- … Moor Park in February (de Beer ed. 1959). See letter to John Lubbock, [6 February 1859] , …
- … and letter from John Lubbock, 8 February 1859 . The reference to …
- … missing portion of the letter from John Lubbock, 8 February 1859 . An extract from Thomas …
To John Lubbock 14 December [1859]
Summary
Is preparing a reprint of Origin. Asks JL’s opinion on the book’s merits; values his judgment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 14 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 15 (EH 88206464) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2584 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John …
- … To John Lubbock 14 December [1859] …
- … Charles Robert Darwin Down 14 Dec [1859] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
- … Horace Gordon. 1914. Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. London: Macmillan. …
- … MS). CD refers to Beaumont William Lubbock , John Lubbock’s younger brother. CD had since …
- … Darwin Archive–Down House. See letters to John Lubbock , [19 November 1859] , [22 November …
- … William Waker Phillips of Down Hall. See letter to John Lubbock, [19 November 1859] . The …
- … enclosure has not been found. John Lubbock’s …
- … father, John William Lubbock , supported a school for girls and infants in Down, the …
- … southern end of his property from John William Lubbock . On this tract he planted trees …
- … See Correspondence vol. 3, letter to John William Lubbock, [16 January 1846] . CD was …
To John Lubbock 26 July [1861]
Summary
Thanks JL for assistance with William Darwin’s banking partnership; considers everything is now settled.
Is enjoying himself and doing a little work on orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 26 July [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 45 (EH 88206489) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3219 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John …
- … To John Lubbock 26 July [1861] …
- … Robert Darwin Torquay 26 July [1861] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
- … a Southampton bank. See letter to John Lubbock, 14 July [1861] . The arrangements for …
- … began in May, were concluded in August (see letter to John Lubbock, 10 August [1861] ). …
- … John Lubbock’s …
- … provisions of the contract (see letter to John Lubbock, 14 July [1861] ). Father and son …
- … father, John William Lubbock , had given CD advice about the legal …
- … John. — I am enjoying myself & can walk a couple of miles out; & am doing a very little work in drawing up my Orchis paper. — Whether we shall stop here long I am very doubtful, for it is excessively damp & does not seem to suit Etty or my wife, which is a terrible evil & what to do & where to go Heaven only knows. My dear Lubbock | …
To John Lubbock [2 August 1861]
Summary
Asks JL’s advice about details of William’s proposed banking partnership. CD’s solicitor is suspicious of Atherley’s long-term intentions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [2 Aug 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 50 (EH 88206494) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3225 |
Matches: 5 hits
To John Lubbock [August–September 1858]
Summary
Variations in the structure of Pelargonium flowers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [Aug–Sept 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 24 (EH 88206473) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2390 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John …
- … To John Lubbock [August–September 1858] …
- … Charles Robert Darwin ? [Aug–Sept 1858] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
- … Bibliography Lubbock, John. 1859. On the ova and pseudova of Insects. Philosophical …
- … 1858 and read at the meeting of 9 December (see letter to John Lubbock, [November 1858] ). …
- … date. See also n. 4, below. Harriet Lubbock was John Lubbock’s mother. The case is cited …
To John Lubbock [8 August 1875 or earlier]
Summary
Discusses the time of the Duke’s arrival on Tuesday. [See 9968.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [8 Aug 1875 or earlier] |
| Classmark: | Kenneth Hince Book Auctions (dealer) (8 November 1983) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9968A |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John …
- … To John Lubbock [8 August 1875 or earlier] …
- … Robert Darwin [8 Aug 1875 or earlier] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
- … 1875, Alice Lane Fox asked Ellen Frances Lubbock , John Lubbock’s wife, to pass on to CD a …
- … Down House on Monday 9 August 1875 ( John Lubbock’s diary, BL Add mss 62680); the meeting …
- … for Tuesday 11 May, but was postponed (see letter to John Lubbock, 3 May [1875] and n. 3). …
To John Lubbock 23 January [1862]
Summary
Has had 16 in the household ill.
Wants to meet JL.
Praises JL’s paper ["Ancient lake-habitations of Switzerland", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 26–51].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 23 Jan [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3409 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John …
- … To John Lubbock 23 January [1862] …
- … Charles Robert Darwin Down 23 Jan [1862] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
- … Horace Gordon. 1914. Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. London: Macmillan. …
- … probably Lubbock 1862a (see letter from John Lubbock, 6 January 1862 and n. 2). Lubbock …
- … by the relationship to the letter from John Lubbock, 6 January 1862 , and by the reference …
- … January 1862] , and letters from John Lubbock , 6 January 1862 and 7 [February] 1862 ). …
- … see n. 5, below). In 1861, John and Ellen Frances Lubbock moved from High Elms, near …
To John Lubbock [3 September 1862]
Summary
CD was in error about bees’ behaviour at clover.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [3 Sept 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3705 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John …
- … To John Lubbock [3 September 1862] …
- … Robert Darwin Bournemouth [3 Sept 1862] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
- … by the relationship to the letters to John Lubbock , 2 September [1862] and 5 September [ …
- … was 3 September. See letter to John Lubbock, 2 September [1862] . See also letter to Asa …
To John Lubbock 10 July [1861]
Summary
Seeks JL’s advice on the articles of partnership in the Southampton bank. CD and his solicitor fear they will be unfavourable to William.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 10 July [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 43 (EH 88206487) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3205 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John …
- … To John Lubbock 10 July [1861] …
- … Robert Darwin Torquay 10 July [1861] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
- … William Mackmurdo Hacon . John William Lubbock , John Lubbock’s father, was a partner in …
- … remember that this affair, though to Sir John Lubbock or you a small concern, is of great …
- … was only eight years old (see letter to John Lubbock, 14 July [1861] ). According to Emma …
- … himself”: they urge me to consult Sir John Lubbock “on the fairness of the terms”, but I …
To John Lubbock 16 [December 1862]
Summary
H. W. Bates’s paper; CD will review it. ["Mimetic butterflies" (1863), Collected papers 2: 87–92.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 16 [Dec 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3864 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John …
- … To John Lubbock 16 [December 1862] …
- … Charles Robert Darwin Down 16 [Dec 1862] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
- … is established by the relationship to the letter from John Lubbock, 15 December 1862 . …
- … See letter from John Lubbock, 15 December 1862 . Lubbock was one of the editors of the …
To John Lubbock 25 January [1857]
Summary
Dining with the Lubbocks.
JL’s paper on respiration of insects ["On the distribution of the tracheae in insects", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1860–2): 23–50].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 25 Jan [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 20 (EH 88206469) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3413 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John …
- … To John Lubbock 25 January [1857] …
- … Horace Gordon. 1914. Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. London: Macmillan. …
- … Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 Jan [1857] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
- … January fell on a Monday. Harriet Lubbock was John Lubbock’s mother. Emma Darwin’s diary …
To John Lubbock [22 November 1857]
Summary
Huxley and William Sharpey praise JL’s paper [? on Daphnia, Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 79–100] at Philosophical Club.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [22 Nov 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 22 (EH 88206471) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2149 |
To John Lubbock 12 November [1881]
Summary
JL’s sentence about glaciation will do excellently. Is glad JL thought about dimorphism of butterflies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 12 Nov [1881] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11743F |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John …
- … To John Lubbock 12 November [1881] …
- … Bibliography Lubbock, John. 1881a. President’s address. Report of the 51st Meeting of the …
- … Charles Robert Darwin Down 12 Nov [1881] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
- … had sent in August (see letter to John Lubbock, 2 August 1881 ). On the formation of …
To John Lubbock 2 September [1862]
Summary
Hive-bees and clover.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 2 Sept [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3708 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John …
- … To John Lubbock 2 September [1862] …
- … Robert Darwin Bournemouth 2 Sept [1862] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
- … August [1862] and n. 3, and letter to John Lubbock, 21 August [1862] ). CD had observed …
- … established by the relationship to the letter from John Lubbock, 23 August 1862 (see nn. …
- … 2 and 3, below). Letter from John Lubbock, 23 August 1862 . CD refers …
- … tour of Switzerland (see letter from John Lubbock, 23 August 1862 ). Emma and Leonard …
To John Lubbock 21 August [1862]
Summary
Leonard Darwin’s illness.
William Darwin and the bank.
Beginning to make out a marvellous case of trimorphism.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 21 Aug [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 4 (EH 88205929) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3693 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John …
- … To John Lubbock 21 August [1862] …
- … Robert Darwin Southampton 21 Aug [1862] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
- … Horace Gordon. 1914. Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. London: Macmillan. …
- … year is established by the relationship to the letter from John Lubbock, 23 August 1862 . …
- … 1862b ). See Hutchinson 1914 , 1: 55–6, John Lubbock’s diary ( British Museum , Add. Ms. …
- … Charles Linnaeus Martin (see letter from John Lubbock, 23 August 1862 and n. 10). As …
- … 62679: 64 r. ), and the letter from John Lubbock, 23 August 1862 . See letter to A. R. …
- … 1862] and nn. 2 and 3. In 1861, John Lubbock had helped to arrange William Erasmus …
- … Lubbock visited Switzerland in July and early August 1862, spending ten days mountaineering with Thomas Henry Huxley and John …
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (103) |
| Blomefield, J. W. P. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Story, Nevil | (1) |
Addressee
| Lubbock, John | |
| Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
| Foster, Michael | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Sclater, P. L. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Lubbock, John | (106) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (103) |
| Blomefield, J. W. P. | (1) |
| Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
