From Henrietta Anne Huxley 1 January 1865
Summary
Has just been shown CD’s remarks on Tennyson. Upbraids CD for "Owen-like quotation" out of context, and getting source wrong. "If ""facts"" in Origin are of this sort I agree with Bishop of Oxford."
| Author: | Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 284 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4733 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … vol. 8, letter to T. H. Huxley, 9 April [1860] ; see also letter to Charles Lyell, 10 …
- … Huxley In the letter to T. H. Huxley, 5 November [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12), CD had quoted this passage from ‘Sea Dreams’, by Alfred Tennyson . CD had remarked, ‘Such a gem as this is enough to make me young again & like poetry with pristine fervour’. The poem appeared in the volume Enoch Arden, etc ( Tennyson 1864 ), p. 105. CD had protested to Huxley and others about the ‘false & malignant’ review of Origin by Richard Owen ( [Owen] 1860 ): ‘ …
From George Henslow 6 November 1865
Summary
Pleased CD confirms his observations on Salvia.
Spring action of Medicago stamens described.
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Nov 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 151 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4931 |
From T. H. Huxley 15 January 1865
Summary
Thanks for [E. Eudes?] Deslongchamps’ paper.
Henry Huxley born.
Leader in Reader [4 (1864): 821] is by THH. It has got him into trouble with some of his friends.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Jan 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 305 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4745 |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Heathorn, H. A. | (1) |
| Henslow, George | (1) |
| Huxley, H. A. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Heathorn, H. A. | (1) |
| Henslow, George | (1) |
| Huxley, H. A. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
