From John Tyndall 9 April [1873]1
Royal Institution of Great Britain
9th April
My dear Darwin
You have stolen a march upon me, but I am content. Our excellent friend Spottiswoode & his sweet wife were here yesterday.2 I told him all about our meeting & that we had made a shot at him for £100— He was delighted. It was a capital stroke of work yesterday: and I feel more and more confident, considering the perfectly brotherly spirit of the transaction that Huxley will raise no permanent objection to it.3
I wrote to Armstrong4 yesterday.
I also saw Bence Jones.5 He gave me (without asking) a cheque for fifty pounds | Yours ever | John Tyndall
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Summary
Is convinced that the "brotherly spirit of the transaction" will cause Huxley not to raise objections.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8852
- From
- John Tyndall
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Royal Institution
- Source of text
- DAR 106: C11
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8852,” accessed on 29 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8852.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21