To John Lubbock   [3 September 1862]1

Cliff Cottage | Bournemouth

Wednesday

My dear Lubbock

I beg a million pardons. Abuse me to any degree but forgive me— it is all an illusion (but almost excusable) about the Bees.2 I do so hope that you have not wasted any time for my stupid blunder.— I hate myself   I hate clover & I hate Bees—

In Haste to catch evening post | Yours sincerely | C. Darwin

1
Dated by the relationship to the letters to John Lubbock, 2 September [1862] and 5 September [1862]; the intervening Wednesday was 3 September.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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Please cite as “DCP-LETT-3705,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-3705