To T. H. Huxley 4 March [1860]1
Down Bromley Kent
March 4th
My dear Huxley
You poor Londoners I daresay never see the Gardeners’ Chronicle so I write to say that in to days number, there appears the following.
“We borrow from the Times the following brilliant notice of the work &c &c”
Then comes your whole Article—2 I never knew G. Ch. do such a thing before see you best of “general agents” what capital service you have done in the good cause of removing prejudice &c.
Yours Most sincerely | C. Darwin
By the way, a fortnight ago Harvey attacked my book in rather weak article, & Hooker made really admirable rejoinder in last week’s number.—3
Footnotes
Bibliography
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Summary
Gardeners’ Chronicle has reprinted THH’s Times review.
W. H. Harvey made weak attack on Origin [Gard. Chron. (1860): 145–6], to which Hooker made admirable rejoinder [Gard. Chron. (1860): 170–1].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2720
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 109)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2720,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2720.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8