My dear Huxley

Thanks for your Address.² People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth, but it a much greater shame & injustice that any one man sh^d. have the power to write so many brilliant essays as you have lately done. There is no one who writes like you.— I have hugely enjoyed your attack on Thompson; but if I were in your shoes I should tremble for my life.— I agree with all you say, except that I must think that you draw too great a distinction between your evolutionists & the uniformitarians.³

I find that the few sentences which I have sent to press in the Origin about the age of the world will do fairly well, though if I had read you first, perhaps I sh^d have been less deferential towards Thompson.⁴

Many thanks for your note received a day or two ago with yourself represented as a bristly little Terrier.—⁵

Ever yours | C. Darwin