Dear Lubbock
Will you be so kind as to lend me, if you are not using it, the Fly-Pincers, like a pair of scissors.
Georgy has taken a passion for Bees,2 & I want to see whether they will be useful to him, & if so I can get a pair made for him.—
I have been very sorry to hear how unwell you have been; but I hope you are now strong again.—
Ever yours | C. Darwin
Mrs. Darwin continues very poorly.—
Wollaston’s book on Insect variation is published & I am reading it.—3
June 1856d from the reference to CD’s reading of Wollaston 1856 (see n. 3, below).
George Howard Darwin was nearly 11 years old.
Wollaston 1856. CD recorded it in his reading notebook on 5 June 1856 (Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, 128: 18).
Manuscript Alterations and Comments
1.1 are] over ‘do’
Please cite as “DCP-LETT-1896,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on