To T. H. Huxley 3 July [1860]
Summary
Has had a report on Oxford BAAS meeting from Hooker. Asks THH to write about it. Has heard he fought nobly with Owen and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce. Regrets trouble he has caused his friends.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 3 July [1860] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 121) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2854 |
To T. H. Huxley [5 July 1860]
Summary
THH’s long account of Oxford meeting. Has he no reverence for a bishop?
W. Hopkins’ review in Fraser’s Magazine is nothing new.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | [5 July 1860] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 123) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2861 |
To T. H. Huxley 20 July [1860]
Summary
On the Fraser’s Magazine review by Hopkins [see 2860] and the Quarterly Review article by Wilberforce ["Darwin’s Origin of species", 108 (1860): 225–64]. The course of opinion since Oxford BAAS meeting. Asa Gray.
Need for Natural History Review, but fears it will be a burden for THH and lessen his original work. His own problem with work: if he had other duties he would be able to do absolutely nothing in science.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 20 July [1860] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 125) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2873 |
To T. H. Huxley [30? July 1860]
Summary
Relates anecdote concerning the blind Henry Fawcett and the Bishop of Oxford; Fawcett proclaimed, within the other’s hearing, that the Bishop had not read the Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | [30? July 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 145 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2887 |
