Darwin thanks Lubbock for agreeing to the rental of adjoining land in order to provide a sheltered walk. This would become known as the Sandwalk, or Darwin's 'thinking path'.
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Title: Letter from Charles Darwin to Sir John Lubbock
Down. |Friday|Dear Sir John|I cannot forbear sending you our cordial thanks for the kind manner in which you have acceded to all our wishes about the little piece of land. If you were to feel how exposed we are to every wind under Heaven, you would understand our strong wish to have one sheltered walk, and I look forward to considerable amusement in tending & pruning the trees.|Pray believe me | dear Sir John | Your?s very faithfully | C. Darwin