From Thomas Henry Huxley 1 January 1865
Summary
Sends photograph.
THH wishes he could write the popular zoology but writing is a boring and slow process when he is not interested, and he is overburdened with lectures.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 304 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4732 |
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 |
From T. H. Huxley 1 May 1865
Summary
Sends Catalogue [of the collection of fossils in the Museum of Practical Geology (1865)], most of which was written in pre-Darwinian epoch [i.e., 1857].
Hears magnum opus [Variation] completely developed, though not yet born.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 May 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 306 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4824 |
From T. H. Huxley 29 May 1865
Summary
Glad to read what CD sends. Any glimmer of light on those subjects is of utmost importance.
Quotes a letter from Haeckel on progress of Darwinism in Germany.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 May 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 307 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4838 |
From T. H. Huxley 1 June 1865
Summary
MS arrived. Has glanced at it and sees he must put on his sharpest spectacles and best considering cap.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 June 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 308 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4845 |
From T. H. Huxley 16 July 1865
Summary
Did not intend to persuade CD against publishing Pangenesis. Will not take the responsibility, nor risk being made a horrible example 50 years hence.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 July 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 309 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4875 |
From T. H. Huxley 2 October 1865
Summary
Has returned from holiday. Family news.
Concern over Hooker’s health.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Oct 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 310 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4905 |
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