The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2021. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR215 contains material on Darwin's funeral, obituaries & related correspondence, & on Darwin's LL.D. degree. 1877-1906.

"Lubbock, Sir John, Bart, 1834 Apr. 30-1913 May 28. First child of Sir John William L. Statesman, banker and man of science. Home: High Elms near Down. L was the closest of CD's younger friends and frequent visitor to Down House from childhood. CD discussed evolution with before Origin. Biography: Hutchinson, Life of Lord Avebury, 2 vols., 1914." (Paul van Helvert & John van Wyhe, Darwin: A Companion, 2021)

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[To WED]

34, QUEEN ANNE'S GATE, WESTMINSTER.

23 April 82

My dear Darwin

It is very right that your father should be buried in the Abbey, though individually I should of course have preferred that he should have rested in our quiet little Churchyard at Down, where some day

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I should have joined him.

Of course I shall come to the funeral, & shall esteem it an honor to be one of the Pallbearers.

You would have been gratified at the feeling expressed in the House of Commons, & the very general desire that the Dean should assent to our request.

I am yours most sincerely

John Lubbock

W E Darwin Esq

Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)