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To John Lubbock   27 [October 1862]1

Down Bromley your letter went to Dover. Kent

27th

My dear Lubbock.

Many thanks for your note.2 I hope & expect to be well enough on Friday to see you. I presume 7o oclock will be the best hour for you.—3 If I shd. be bad, I would send over to Lamas4 on Friday afternoon. I cannot say much for several of us; for we have had a touch of Influenza5

Ever yours very sincerely | C. Darwin

1
The date is established by the relationship to the letter from John Lubbock, 25 October 1862.
3
Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that Lubbock dined at Down House on Friday 31 October 1862.
4
‘Lamas’ was Lubbock’s house in Chislehurst, Kent.
5
Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242) on 25 October 1862: ‘I feverish & bad cold | in bed’; on 26 October she wrote: ‘in bed—’.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 your letter went to Dover.] interl
1.3 to Lamas] interl
1.3 afternoon] above del ‘morning’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-3783,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-3783