To T. H. Huxley 11 June [1878]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
June 11th.—
My dear Huxley
I thank you very much for your article on Evolution. It seems to me capitally done; but how you find time to pick the brains of all those old fellows, about whom a gentleman of the present day knows nothing, is astonishing. It is extremely curious about Lamarck: one would like to learn, as you say, what made him change his front so completely.2 I do not know whether I ought to return the article, but shd. like to keep it, & will do so unless I hear to the contrary.
We often thought & talked about you during your late distress; for we know what that kind of misery is. I still look back with horror to what we endured when some of our children were dangerously ill with scarlet-fever & we were in a panic about the others, & then when my wife caught it, that was a climax.—3
Ever yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
EB 9th ed.: The Encyclopaedia Britannica: a dictionary of arts, sciences, and general literature. 9th edition. 24 vols. and index. Edinburgh: A. and C. Black. 1875–89.
Encyclopaedia Britannica: Encyclopaedia Britannica online. www.britannica.com/
Summary
Thanks for evolution article; would like to know what made Lamarck "change his front" so completely.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11550
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 331)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11550,” accessed on 1 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11550.xml