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Darwin Correspondence Project

To T. H. Huxley   [7 December 1880]1

6. Queen Anne St | Cavendish Sqr

Tuesday

My dear Huxley

I shd. very much like to see you for 5 minutes to hear about the Wallace affair.—2 Will you send me a card telling me at what hour in the morning of Thursday or Friday, you will be at Kensington? We leave London early on Saturday morning—3 It is of no real consequence if you could not see me, & I may not be up to coming.—

Ever yours | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from T. H. Huxley, 7 December 1880; in 1880, 7 December was a Tuesday.
CD was trying to obtain a government pension for Alfred Russel Wallace and had enlisted Huxley’s help in getting signatures for the memorial (see letter to T. H. Huxley, 13 November 1880).
The Darwins were in London from 7 to 11 December 1880 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)).

Summary

Asks to see THH on Thursday or Friday to hear about the Wallace affair.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-12893
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Thomas Henry Huxley
Sent from
London, Queen Anne St, 6
Source of text
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 355)
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12893,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12893.xml

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