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From E. F. Lubbock   [18 November 1870]1

Dear Mr. Darwin

Could you come here to luncheon tomorrow? You don’t know how glad we should be. You will find here Mr. Forster, Mr. Arthur Russell, Mr. Hobhouse, & Lord E. Fitzmaurice,2 who would all think it a great privilege to meet you.

Please come, if you are well enough: John has nearly finished his Thysanura book—3

With kind regards to Mrs. Darwin, and all, I remain yours most sincerely | Ellen Lubbock

1
The date is established by an entry for 19 November 1870 in Arthur Russell’s diary (private collection); the entry reads, ‘I left for Orpington and High Elms | Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, Wm Forster (the Right Honorable) and Arthur Hobhouse came to dine’.
2
William Edward Forster, Arthur Hobhouse, and Edmond Fitzmaurice.
3
John Lubbock’s Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura was published by the Ray Society in 1873 (Lubbock 1873a); CD read proofs of the book in 1871 (see Correspondence vol. 19, letter to John Lubbock, 12 August [1871]). CD evidently did not attend the luncheon.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7789,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7789