To T. H. Huxley [13–21 September 1868]1
My dear Huxley.
I have written the first page so that you can tear it off & send it, if you like, to Mr Nunn.—2
We are so sorry to hear of the poor dear little man being ill; but I do believe it will turn out only indigestion. Pray ask Mrs H., as soon as all anxiety is over, to let us hear.— He is such a charmer.— Thanks for your pleasant note—3 How I shd have liked to have been at Norwich, & heard Hooker & Tyndall & you on Chalk & especially on the races of man.—4 Everything seems to have gone off splendidly.
I am very fairly well & hard at work—
Ever yours most truly | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1868. Address of the president. Report of the thirty-eighth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Norwich, pp. lviii–lxxv.
Lewis, Alfred L. 1869. Report on the International Congress of Archaic Anthropology. Journal of the Anthropological Society of London 7: xxvi–xxix.
Tyndall, John. 1868. [Presidential address to the section for mathematics and physics.] Report of the 38th meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Norwich, Transactions of the sections, pp. 1–6.
Summary
Sends a page to be sent on to Charles William Nunn.
Offers sympathy for the illness of THH’s son, Henry (Harry) Huxley.
Wishes he could have attended the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting at Norwich.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6381F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Source of text
- Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6381F,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6381F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16