To T. H. Huxley 23 January [1863 or 1864]1
Down Bromley Kent
Jan. 23d
My dear Huxley
I have signed the enclosed with much pleasure.2
I cordially thank you for your kind, most kind, expressions about the medal.3 Sympathy & not fame is the true & good reward of labour.—
Yours most truly | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The date range is conjectured by CD’s mention of the Copley Medal (see n. 3, below).
The enclosure has not been found.
The letter from Huxley has not been found. CD was nominated for the Royal Society of London’s Copley Medal in 1862 and 1863 but his candidature was not successful (Royal Society, Council minutes, vol. 3 (1870), pp. 124, 160). CD was nominated again in 1864 and awarded the medal in November of that year (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Edward Sabine, 3 November 1864).
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
THH’s efforts to obtain Copley Medal for CD fail. Thanks THH for kind words of sympathy.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2662
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 254)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2662,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2662.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11
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