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From John Lubbock   26 November [1868]1

15, Lombard Street. E.C.

26 Nov.

Dear Mr. Darwin

Many thanks for your very kind letter.

It is of course a disappointment but the reception I have everywhere met with in West Kent has been most gratifying.

In Bromley particularly & Dartford I had quite an ovation.2

Ever, dear Mr Darwin, | Yours most sincerely | John Lubbock

1
The year is established by the reference to the election result (see n. 2, below).
2
Lubbock had recently been defeated by a narrow margin in the parliamentary election held in the western division of Kent on 23 November 1868 (The Times, 26 November 1868, p. 10). The towns of Bromley and Dartford were both polling places in the division.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-6478,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-6478