To John Lubbock   8 April [1874]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Ap. 8th

Dear Lubbock

Lady Lubbock2 has been so good as to return to me the enclosed & has given me your address. I have been asked to send it to you. As you perhaps will not have a large envelope with you, I enclose one addressed, & I shd be obliged if you will post the statement & my circular.3

Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the reference to the statement and circular (see n. 3, below).
3
See circular to various scientific men, [7 April 1874], and letter from Michael Foster, 7 April [1874]. The statement has not been found; CD evidently sent the circular, together with Foster’s statement of appeal for the Zoological Station at Naples, to Lubbock’s home address. Lubbock’s journal records on 8 April 1874: ‘Took Harriet & the children for a few days to Alum Bay. Nelly would not come’ (British Library, Add Ms 62680: supplementary Avebury papers).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8283,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8283