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From Montagu Lubbock   10 January 1881

19 Grosvenor St. W

10th Jany. 1881

Dear Mr. Darwin

I hope that should you be the least unwell you will simply tear this letter up & think no more about it. Should however you be quite well, I thought you perhaps would not mind giving me one line of introduction to Sir Joseph Fayrer, should you know him as I thought you probably would.1 Perhaps in that case you would not mind saying that you are an old friend of our family—2 I ask this as I am applying for a vacancy at the Charing Cross Hospt. with which Sir Joseph is connected

Hoping that I am not troubling you too much, | Believe me | Yrs. very truly | Montagu Lubbock.

C. Darwin Esq |Downe

1
Joseph Fayrer was consulting physician and governor to Charing Cross Hospital, London (Fayrer 1900, p. 426); he had provided cobra venom for CD’s work on insectivorous plants (see Correspondence vol. 22).
2
The Darwins had become friends and neighbours of the Lubbock family on moving to Down (see Correspondence vol. 2, letter to W. D. Fox, [20 November 1843]).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13000,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13000