From:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 2 July] 1875
Source of text:
Lubbock family (private collection)
Summary:
A poem on Insectivorous Plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
A poem on Insectivorous Plants.
Trying to persuade CD to visit JL.
JL is in France with J. Steenstrup.
Herbert Spencer is staying with the Lubbocks and would much like to see CD.
John Lubbock wants a copy of Origin (4th ed.) for Philip Norman.
Has marked a page from Adam Bede which may be relevant to CD’s work on expression.
John Lubbock has nearly finished his Thysanura book [Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura (1873)].
Wants the Anthropological Society renamed the Ethnological Society. Is trying to raise funds toward payment of the Society’s debt.
Observations on her pet cat.
Further arrangements for polling. Everything looks well. [Ellen Lubbock notes, "he is too sanguine – ".]