To T. H. Huxley 18 [February 1863]1
Down
18th—
My dear Huxley
Hurrah the Monkey Book has come—very many for your present of it.—2 I long to read it, but am determined to refrain till I have finished Lyell, & I have got only half through it.3 The Pictures are splendid.—
Ever yours | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Marginalia: Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of Nicholas W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990.
Summary
Thanks for "monkey book" [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)].
Must wait till he has finished Lyell [Antiquity of man (1863)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3996
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 173)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3996,” accessed on 1 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3996.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11