From W. E. Darwin [3 November 1871]1
Southampton
Friday
My dear Father,
I have the proofs and am at work.2 I cannot get them done as quickly as I should like, as I only can have my evenings just now as Hankinson3 is moving houses, I have had to be more at the Bank, but in a week’s time I hope to get on quicker. I shall send you a batch on Tuesday. How do you like organization spelt, sometimes you use z generally s— send me a card.
I have read Huxley and enjoyed him awfully, it is delicious feeling Mivart’s bones crunching in one’s mouth.4
It is such a perfect & evident upsetting of Mivart’s theological standing, that I have a sort of trembling that Huxley must have overlooked something, as it is seems impossible that M. could have been so ignorant of his own Suarez.5
I hope you have stood the journey well.6
I have only come across a few letters out of place &c. as yet
Your affect son | W E Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Apologises for not working very quickly on proofs. Comments on Huxley’s theological critique of Mivart.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8048F
- From
- William Erasmus Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Southampton
- Source of text
- Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 40)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8048F,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8048F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24 (Supplement)
