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To John Lubbock   17 January [1867]1

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Jan 17

My dear Lubbock

I have embodied what you say, in the enclosed note of introduction to Mr Murray & I very sincerely hope it may answer its purpose.2

We take this opportunity of returning with many thanks the beautiful book & the curious revolving machine which Lady Lubbock was so kind as to lend us.3

I was so very sorry not to see you the other day when you called & hear about some wonderful new animal. You must have a knack of creating new animals down there.4

yours very truly | Ch. Darwin

LS

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from John Lubbock, 16 January 1867.
2
The enclosed letter to John Murray has not been found (see letter from John Lubbock, 16 January 1867).
3
The book, and the machine lent by Ellen Frances Lubbock, have not been identified.
4
CD may refer to the animal Lubbock reported on in his paper ‘On Pauropus, a new type of centipede’ at a meeting of the Linnean Society on 6 December 1866 (Lubbock 1866). Joseph Dalton Hooker had reported Lubbock’s find in his letter of [12 December 1866] (Correspondence vol. 14).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-5367,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-5367