To John William Lubbock 28 [June 1856 – January 1865?]¹

Down.—

28^th

Dear Sir John Lubbock

I am very much obliged for your invitation to dinner on the 30^th & I sh^d. have very much liked to have come, but my health has been so indifferent of late that I have resolved not to dine out for the next few weeks or months till I get better.—

With many thanks for your kindness, I am, dear Sir John Lubbock | Your’s truly obliged | Ch. Darwin

The date range is conjectured from the letter’s position in file in which it is contained at the Royal Society of London, and from Lubbock’s death in 1865. The letter is at the end of its file, following the letter to J. W. Lubbock, 27 May [1856] (Correspondence vol. 6). Lubbock died 20 June 1865 (DNB); in his letter to CD, 22 and 26 March 1865, his son, John Lubbock, reported that his father was ‘far from well’. John William Lubbock lived at High Elms in Down (Post Office directory of the six home counties).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-1880,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-1880

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Regrets he cannot accept dinner invitation.

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Record number: DCP-LETT-1880
From: Charles Robert Darwin
To: John William Lubbock, 3d baronet
Date: 28 June 1856
Date: 28 July 1856
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Sent from: Down
Source of text: The Royal Society (LUB: D26)
Physical description: 1p

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