From T. H. Huxley 7 December 1880
4 Marlborough Place, | Abbey Road. N. W.
Dec 7 1880
My dear Darwin
You will find me at South Kensington either Thursday or Friday morning up to 1. P.M. & very glad to see you—1
I have been horridly busy for the last week or ten days & so the Wallace business did not press home [but] it stand over2
Ever | Yours very faithfully | T H Huxley
Footnotes
Huxley was professor of natural history at the Royal School of Mines, South Kensington, London.
CD and Huxley were trying to obtain a government pension for Alfred Russel Wallace (see letter to T. H. Huxley, [7 December 1880] and n. 2).
Summary
THH will be at Kensington.
He has been so busy that he has let the Wallace business stand over.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12895
- From
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Marlborough Place, 4
- Source of text
- DAR 166: 354
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12895,” accessed on
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