To T. H. Huxley 25 April 1873
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
April 25/73
My dear Huxley
Your letter has delighted me, but this is a weak term, for it is written in so grand & sweet a spirit that it has quite affected me.1 I will send a copy to your seventeen other friends, for I am very sure that they will be anxious to read the whole, & I am equally sure that they will all be made as profoundly happy as I have been.2 Those of your friends who met together instructed me to give, if you demanded it, the names of the eighteen, but without any further details.3
Owing to an error 50£ has been omitted, which I now enclose by my own cheque instead of that received this morning; but this does not increase the number of (18) your friends.4
God grant for the sake of the public, yourself & dear family that rest from too much labour may do your health great good.
In Haste | Yours affectionately | Ch. Darwin
What dreadful news about Lady Lyell.5 What will become of Lyell!
Footnotes
Summary
Affected by THH’s letter – will send a copy to the other 17 friends. Hopes for his and public’s sake his health will improve.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8875
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 297)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp & ADraftS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8875,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8875.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21