To John Lubbock [8 June 1856]1
Down.
Sunday
Dear Lubbock
Will you be so kind as to lend me, if you are not using it, the Fly-Pincers, like a pair of scissors.
Georgy has taken a passion for Bees,2 & I want to see whether they will be useful to him, & if so I can get a pair made for him.—
I have been very sorry to hear how unwell you have been; but I hope you are now strong again.—
Ever yours | C. Darwin
Mrs. Darwin continues very poorly.—
Wollaston’s book on Insect variation is published & I am reading it.—3
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Wollaston, Thomas Vernon. 1856. On the variation of species with especial reference to the Insecta; followed by an inquiry into the nature of genera. London: John van Voorst.
Summary
Wishes to borrow fly pincers for his son George.
Discusses T. V. Wollaston’s book on insect variation [On the variation of species (1856)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1896
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 263: 4 (EH 88206452)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1896,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1896.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6
