From T. H. Huxley 31 March 1874
4 Marlborough Place | NW
March 31. 1874
My dear Darwin
The brain business is more than half done & I will soon polish it off and send it to you—1 We are going down to Folkestone for a week on Thursday & I shall take it with me
I do not know what is doing about Dohrn’s business at present Foster took it in hand but the last time I heard he was waiting for reports from Dew & Balfour2
You have been very generous as always;3 & I hope that other folk may follow your example but like yourself I am not sanguine
I have had an awfully tempting offer to go to Yankee land on a lecturing expedition and I am seriously thinking of making an experiment next spring4
The chance of clearing two or three thousand pounds in as many months is not to be sneezed at by a père de famille— I am getting sick of the state of things here
Ever | Yours faithfully | T. H. Huxley
I have heard no more about the spirit photographs!5
Footnotes
Bibliography
Descent 2d ed.: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition. London: John Murray. 1874.
Summary
His note on brain [in man and apes for 2d ed. of Descent] nearly finished.
Has heard nothing about Dohrn.
THH has been invited to lecture in America.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9380
- From
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Marlborough Place, 4
- Source of text
- DAR 166: 332
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9380,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9380.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22
