From John Lubbock 7 July [1875]
Summary
Arrangements to invite the Duke [unidentified].
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10047 |
To John Lubbock 16 August [1876]
Summary
Glad to have heard JL’s admirable speech read aloud.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 16 Aug [1876] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 49644: 159) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10578 |
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 |
To John Lubbock 22 October 1879
Summary
Condolences on the death of JL’s wife.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 22 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 68 (EH 88206512) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12267 |
From J. W. P. Blomfield to John Lubbock 5 March 1880
Summary
[Copy on CD’s stationery.] Lord S[andon] acknowledges receipt of JL’s letter and will consider the subject [Government support for James Torbitt’s potato experiments?].
Author: | Blomefield, J. W. P. |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 5 Mar 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 340 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12515 |
From John Lubbock 9 May 1880
Summary
Writes regarding an [unspecified] election at a university. JL wonders whether William Darwin would speak to two Southampton men about it.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 May 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 157 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12600 |
To John Lubbock 16 April [1881?]
Summary
Suggests that the pappus of Compositae, when lying on ground, may absorb water which may function in seed germination.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 16 Apr [1881?] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 49645: 97-8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13119 |
To John Lubbock 2 August 1881
Summary
Comments on MS of JL’s [1881] BAAS Presidential Address. Suggests that more attention be given to parthenogenesis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 2 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 49645: 100–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13269 |
To John Lubbock [18 September 1881]
Summary
JL’s address [Presidential Address, 31 Aug 1881, Rep. BAAS (1881): 1–51] has made him think about important steps in advancing geology. Lists major advances in his lifetime.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [18 Sept 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 11 (EH 88205936) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13308 |
To John Lubbock 6 November 1881
Summary
Supports the statements on Henry Hicks in JL’s address.
Bonney is an "objector general".
CD has always supported A. C. Ramsay.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 6 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 49645: 104–5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13463 |
To John Lubbock 10 [September 1853]
Summary
Asks about source of paper on the metamorphosis of Pycnogonida for C. S. Bate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 10 [Sept 1853] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.97) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1365 |
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 |
From John Lubbock to Francis Darwin 22 February 1882
Summary
Returns certificate he has signed with pleasure.
Emma Darwin will be interested to hear that Charles Bradlaugh was expelled from Parliament.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 22 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (6 April 2022, lot 237) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13697F |
To John Lubbock 2 March 1882
Summary
Letter of introduction for Romilly Allen.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 2 Mar 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 12 (EH 88205937) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13713 |
From John Lubbock to G. G. Bradley 22 April 1882
Summary
Encloses petition (not present) from members of the House of Commons requesting CD be buried in Westminster Abbey.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | George Granville Bradley |
Date: | 22 Apr 1882 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 49645: 126) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13769H |
To John Lubbock [September 1854]
Summary
Sends beetle he cannot identify.
Reading J. O. Westwood [Introduction to the modern classification of insects (1839–40)] has reawakened his passion for entomology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [Sept 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 8 (EH 88206457) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1585 |
To John Lubbock [29 July 1856]
Summary
Regrets he cannot help JL; the point [unspecified] was always a trouble to CD also.
Has been to a poultry show.
Asks for the return of a lens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [29 July 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 13 (EH 88206462) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1620 |
To John Lubbock 24 April [1855]
Summary
Praise for JL’s interesting paper ["On the freshwater entomostraca of South America", Trans. Entomol. Soc. Lond. n.s. 3 (1854–6): 232–46].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 24 Apr [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 11 (EH 88206460) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1673 |
To John Lubbock 19 [July 1855]
Summary
Congratulations to JL on finding musk-ox fossil.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 19 [July 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 1 (EH 88206446) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1720 |
To John Lubbock 14 [July 1855]
Summary
CD has more specimens of Helix pomatia.
Thanks for Lepidoptera book.
Invites JL to dinner.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 14 [July 1855] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.621) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1831 |
Darwin, C. R. | (103) |
Lubbock, John | (71) |
Blomefield, J. W. P. | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (106) |
Darwin, C. R. | (66) |
Darwin, Emma | (2) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
Bradley, G. G. | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (177) |
Darwin, C. R. | (169) |
Darwin, Emma | (2) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
Blomefield, J. W. P. | (1) |