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To T. H. Huxley   18 [February 1863]1

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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

1
The date is established by reference to the publication of T. H. Huxley 1863b on 20 February 1863 (Publishers’ Circular, 16 February 1863, p. 85, and Athenæum, 21 February 1863, p. 261).
2
Huxley’s Evidence as to man’s place in nature (T. H. Huxley 1863b) was published in February 1863 (see n. 1, above) by the London booksellers and publishers Williams & Norgate. CD’s annotated copy is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 423–4).
3
CD refers to Charles Lyell’s Antiquity of man (C. Lyell 1863a) which he received at the beginning of the month (see letter to Charles Lyell, 4 [February 1863] and n. 1).

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
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Source of text
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 173)
Physical description
ALS 1p

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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3996,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3996.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11

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