To subscribers to T. H. Huxley’s gift [25 April 1873]
Summary
A circular letter forwarding to subscribers a copy of Huxley’s letter of thanks [8873].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Subscribers to T. H. Huxley gift |
| Date: | [25 Apr 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 71 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8876 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To subscribers to T. H. Huxley’s gift [25 April 1873] …
- … DAR 99: 71 Charles Robert Darwin Down [25 Apr 1873] Subscribers to T. H. Huxley gift …
- … this letter, the letter from T. H. Huxley, 24 April 1873 , and the letter to T. …
- … H. Huxley, 25 April 1873 . See letters to T. H. …
- … Huxley, 23 April 1873 and 25 April 1873 . A copy of the letter from T. H. Huxley, 24 …
To T. H. Huxley 28 April 1873
Summary
Lady Lyell’s death.
Sends names of donors of gift to THH.
The Edinburgh Review has a critical article against CD, THH, Tyndall, and H. Spencer [see 8935]. Thinks Forbes reference not worth answering.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 28 Apr 1873 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 299) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8887 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To T. H. Huxley 28 April 1873 …
- … s Critiques and addresses ( T. H. Huxley 1873 ). CD refers to [Baynes] 1873 and to …
- … letter to subscribers to T. H. Huxley’s gift, [25 April 1873] , n. 4, and Appendix IV). …
- … letter from Herbert Spencer, 26 April 1873 and n. 2. See letter from T. H. Huxley, 26 …
- … 1873] and n. 3. CD refers to St George Jackson Mivart . See letter from T. H. Huxley, …
- … 1873 and n. 1. CD refers to Mary Elizabeth and Charles Lyell . See letter from T. H. Huxley, …
To T. H. Huxley 4 November 1873
Summary
Answers THH’s query about W. H. Flower; gives the amount he contributed to the gift. Advises against returning it, even anonymously. Hopes WHF’s health improves.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 4 Nov 1873 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 303) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9131 |
Matches: 4 hits
From T. H. Huxley 26 April 1873
Summary
Concern for Lady Lyell;
will clear away work and set off for holiday in June.
Sends Critiques and addresses.
A life of J. D. Forbes [by J. C. Shairp, P. J. Tait, and A. A. Reilly (1873)] suggests that THH and Tyndall conspired to keep JDF from getting the Copley Medal. THH feels obliged to correct this.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Apr 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 223–24a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8882 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From T. H. Huxley 26 April 1873 …
- … ODNB ). CD’s annotated copy of T. H. Huxley 1873 is in the Darwin Library–CUL. The …
- … preface of his new collection ( T. H. Huxley 1873 , pp. ix–xi). The Life and letters of …
- … Huxley, 25 April 1873 , and letter to subscribers to T. H. Huxley’s gift, [25 April …
- … 1873, p. 338). Huxley’s critique of St George Jackson Mivart in ‘Mr Darwin’s critics’ had provoked a strong counter-attack from Mivart in his essay ‘Evolution and its consequences’ ( T. H. …
- … Huxley, Thomas Henry. 1873. Critiques and addresses. London: Macmillan. ODNB : Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition. ) Edited by H. …
- … 1873] ). Katherine Murray Lyell was M. E. Lyell’s sister. Huxley’s wife was Henrietta Anne Huxley . Charles Lyell was M. E. Lyell’s husband. CD had enclosed a cheque for £50 with his letter of 25 April 1873 . See letter to T. H. …
To John Tyndall 18 April [1873]
Summary
The Huxley fund amounts to £1955. CD trembles about THH’s answer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 18 Apr [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 15 (EH 88205953) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8867 |
From T. H. Huxley [13 November 1873]
Summary
Arrangements for meeting in London.
Glad CD has heard about Dohrn’s affairs.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Nov 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 331 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9183 |
To T. H. Huxley 25 April 1873
Summary
Affected by THH’s letter – will send a copy to the other 17 friends. Hopes for his and public’s sake his health will improve.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 25 Apr 1873 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 297) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8875 |
From T. H. Huxley to Anton Dohrn 15 November 1873
Summary
THH sends to AD a draft, prepared by himself and CD, of a statement for a subscription fund to assist AD’s Naples Zoological Station.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Date: | 15 Nov 1873 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 13: 249) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9412 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From T. H. Huxley to Anton Dohrn 15 November 1873 …
- … Letter from Anton Dohrn to T. H. Huxley, 10 November 1873 (Imperial College of Science, …
- … troubles, see the letter from T. H. Huxley, 24 April 1873 . Huxley had arranged for a …
- … library ( letter from T. H. Huxley to Anton Dohrn, 1 October 1873 , (Imperial College of …
- … Huxley 13: 247–8). On the financial difficulties of the Zoological Station at Naples, see the letter from F. M. Balfour, 11 November 1873 , and the letter to G. H. …
- … 1873] . A draft of this circular in CD’s hand is in the Darwin Archive–CUL (DAR 96: 163). Huxley refers to Michael Foster , Francis Maitland Balfour , and Albert George Dew-Smith . In CD’s original draft of the circular, the following names appear at the end, together with the amounts subscribed: ‘F Balfour 50 £ | Dew Smith 100 £ | Ch Darwin 50 £ | G. H …
To T. H. Huxley 5 December [1873]
Summary
Sorry to hear of Dohrn’s troubles. Has written to prospective donors saying that nothing can be done because of attitude of Dohrn’s father.
New [2d] edition of Descent is an awful job.
Diet no longer doing much for his health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 5 Dec [1873] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 305) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9173 |
From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 24 April [1873]
Summary
Lady Lyell has died of typhoid.
Herbert Spencer is anxious to know about the state of affairs [fund for Huxley].
Edinburgh Review article [review of Expression, Edinburgh Rev. 137 (1873): 492–528] is "a thoroughly nasty unfair review as ever I read".
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Apr [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B88 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8874 |
To Matthew Arnold 9 February [1873]
Summary
Thanks MA for his Literature and dogma [1873].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Matthew Arnold |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8762 |
To John Tyndall 25 April 1873
Summary
It has just occurred to CD that he ought not to leave a copy of Huxley’s confidential letter in the hands of anyone. Asks JT to write to ask recipients to return the copies to CD at Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 25 Apr 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 18 (EH 88205956) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8879 |
From T. H. Huxley 24 April 1873
Summary
Is overwhelmed by generosity of his friends. Admits he felt morally beaten and without energy for first time in his life. Someday wants the names of the friends.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Apr 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 62–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8873 |
From T. H. Huxley 10 October 1871
Summary
Answers CD on transitional forms. Has no doubt Zeuglodon is transitional form between Carnivora and Cetacea.
Met Mivart in Manchester. Some doubt that he was the author of Quarterly Review article.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 326 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8000 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … T. H. Huxley 1871b ) was reprinted in Critiques and addresses ( T. H. Huxley 1873 ). …
- … Huxley, Thomas Henry. 1873. Critiques and addresses. London: Macmillan. Kargon, Robert Hugh. 1977. Science in Victorian Manchester: enterprise and expertise. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ODNB : Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition. ) Edited by H. …
From T. H. Huxley 3 November 1873
Summary
W. H. Flower is ill and obliged to go off for six months. Wants to return the money Flower contributed to fund for his holiday, asks the amount.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Nov 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 329 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9126 |
To ? [June–September 1873?]
Summary
Printed memorandum giving reasons why there should be subsidy on a large scale of scientific research unencumbered with teaching.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [June–Sept 1873?] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (T. H. Huxley papers Mss.B.H981) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9040G |
From T. H. Huxley [8 February 1873]
Summary
Forwards Matthew Arnold’s Literature and dogma [1873].
Hopes they can secure Hooker for President of Royal Society.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [8 Feb 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 328 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8761 |
To T. H. Huxley 23 April 1873
Summary
Informs THH that 18 friends have given him a fund of £2100 to enable him to take a holiday.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 23 Apr 1873 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 295) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8872 |
From T. H. Farrer 3 May 1873
Summary
Hopes affairs will enable him to get back to flowers.
Huxley’s letter [about the fund raised for him] was noble. Would like to have seen CD’s to him.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 May 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 74 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8896 |
To Charles Lyell 25 April [1873]
Summary
Offers condolences on the death of CL’s wife.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 25 Apr [1873] |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell Collection Coll-203/B1/ Lyell Temp Box 3.1 Folder_6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8884 |
| letter | (72) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (32) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (12) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
| Dohrn, Anton | (3) |
| Balfour, F. M. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (36) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (9) |
| Tyndall, John | (8) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (68) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (21) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (11) |
| Tyndall, John | (10) |
| Dohrn, Anton | (6) |
