To T. H. Huxley 19 November [1877]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Monday night. 19th. Nov.
My dear Huxley
I cannot rest easy without telling you more gravely than I did when we met for five minutes near the Museum, how deeply I have felt the many generous things (as far as Frank could remember them) which you said about me at the dinner.2 Frank came early next morning boiling over with enthusiasm about your speech.— You have indeed always been to me a most generous friend; but I know, alas, too well how greatly you overestimate me.
Forgive me for bothering you with these few lines. | Yours gratefully & affectionately | Charles Darwin.
Footnotes
Bibliography
ML: More letters of Charles Darwin: a record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. Edited by Francis Darwin and Albert Charles Seward. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1903.
Summary
Deeply grateful for THH’s tribute to him at conferring of LL.D. at Cambridge.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11240
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 328)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11240,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11240.xml
