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To T. H. Huxley   [9 December 1859]1

[London]

Friday

My dear Huxley

At your leisure return enclosed in blank envelope to Down. I am off home—

Farewell my good and dear general agent. | C. D.

Do not forget when you write to Köllicker2 to say a word about the Translation, it would do good service to the subject.3 It will be God’s blessing if I do not become the most conceited man in all England.

Footnotes

1
Dated on the assumption that CD was writing from his brother’s house, where he stayed for two days en route to Down. He left Ilkley on 7 December and arrived in Down on 9 December 1859 (‘Journal’; Appendix II).
2
Rudolf Albert von Kölliker was professor of comparative anatomy in Würzburg. CD sent him a copy of the second edition of Origin in April 1860 (see Correspondence vol. 8, letter to John Murray,9April [1860]). CD had formerly presented Kölliker with a copy of Living Cirripedia (1854) (see Correspondence vol. 5, letters to T. H. Huxley, 2 September [1854] and 13 September [1854]).
3
For the negotiations concerning a German translation of Origin, see Correspondence vol. 8, letters to T. H. Huxley, 2 [February 1860] and 4 February [1860], and to H. G. Bronn, 4 February [1860].

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.

Summary

Sends enclosure [unspecified].

Reminds THH to mention [German] translation [of Origin] when he writes to R. A. von Kölliker.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-2574
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Thomas Henry Huxley
Sent from
London
Source of text
DAR 145: 189
Physical description
C 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2574,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2574.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7

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