From T. H. Huxley 18 December 1868
Geological Survey of England and Wales
My dear Darwin
It’s lucky this letter contains no secrets for I opened it & read it without looking at the outside—as it came enclosed with other matters—1
Schleicher is a great loss—2
Ever yours | T H Huxley
Jermyn St
Dec 18th 1868
Haeckel evidently thinks that a grateful country has knighted you
Footnotes
Bibliography
ADB: Allgemeine deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Royal Academy of Sciences. 56 vols. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. 1875–1912.
Summary
Sends letter [from Haeckel?] opened by mistake.
August Schleicher a great loss.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6498
- From
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Jermyn St
- Source of text
- DAR 166: 316
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6498,” accessed on 1 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6498.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16