My dear Huxley

I was indeed grieved to receive your news this morning.— ¹ I cannot resist writing, though there is nothing to be said.

I know well how intolerable is the bitterness of such grief.² Yet believe me, that time, & time alone, acts wonderfully. To this day, though so many years have passed away, I cannot think of one child without tears rising in my eyes; but the grief is become tenderer & I can even call up the smile of our lost darling, with something like pleasure. My wife & self deeply sympathise with M^rs. Huxley & yourself. Reflect that your poor little fellow cannot have had much suffering.

God Bless you. | Charles Darwin

I have written to John Lubbock