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From John Lubbock   19 June [1868]1

15, Lombard Street. E.C.

19 June

My dear Mr. Darwin

I am happy to say that no payment of interest on account of Down School appears to have been made this year.2

I send you a cheque for the Balance & am glad to hear that you have got the matter in hand.3

Next Sunday we shall be away, but if you could come the Sunday after we should be delighted.

I have been hard worked lately with my Royal Institution lectures, but they end on Saturday.4

Believe me, dear Mr Darwin, | Yours most sincerely | John Lubbock

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to John Lubbock, 15 June [1868].
3
In CD’s Account books–banking account (Down House MS), there is an entry for £11 2s. 2d. in the receipts column, dated 20 June 1868, and headed, ‘J. Lubbock for National Down School’.
4
Lubbock gave four lectures, ‘On savages’, on Thursdays and Saturdays between 4 and 13 June 1868 (Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain 5 (1866–9): 198.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-6252,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-6252