Darwin Online Manuscript Catalogue
| Identifier: | LINSOC-DWC.1.22.1 |
| Date: | 1871.07.24 |
| Name: | Charles Darwin to Vernon Lushington |
| Description: | Letter from Charles Darwin to Vernon Lushington. Lushington (1832-1912), was a positivist, Deputy Judge Advocate General, Second Secretary to the Admiralty, and associate of the Pre-Raphaelites. The letter thanks Lushington for some "official turtle soup" and discusses Darwins daughter Henrietta's marriage to Richard Buckley Litchfield, a close friend of Lushington's. [From the collection of The Charles Darwin Trust, formerly kept at Cambridge University Library] |
| Document type: | Correspondence |