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: 1 hit
- … 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 ): ‘I never saw such an amount of misrepresentation’ (see Correspondence vol. 8, letter to T. H. Huxley, 9 April [1860] ; see also letter to Charles Lyell, 10 …
From T. H. Huxley and H. A. Huxley 20 September 1871
Summary
Has received Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [see 7940].
Has reviewed Quarterly Review article and 2d ed. of Genesis of species for the Contemporary Review [18 (1871): 443–76].
Mivart has hopelessly misunderstood Suarez [Disputiones (1630)] on evolution.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley; Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 39–42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7953 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Heathorn, H. A. | (2) |
| Huxley, H. A. | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
