To T. H. Huxley 11 April [1860]1
Down Bromley Kent
Ap. 11th
My dear Huxley
Hooker sent me this morning your Lecture, at R. In. & I have just read it. I must have the pleasure of telling you that I think the whole conclusion one of the most eloquent productions which I ever read in my life.—2
In my last note I became so full of Owen, that I quite forgot what I meant to have written about! viz that I have told Murray to send to you for Kölliker a copy of the Origin, if you will give it to him with my very sincere respects.—3
Since then I have forwarded to you by Post the first part of the German Translation.4
Adios | C. Darwin
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
On THH’s lecture at Royal Institution ["On species and races, and their origin", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1858–62): 195–200]. Praises eloquence of his conclusion.
Has sent first part of German translation of Origin to THH.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2756
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 113)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2756,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2756.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8