Huxley, T. H. to Darwin, C. R.
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Would be glad to have Chauncey Wright's [Origin] review for the Natural History Review.
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P.S. I have just received your note & the inclosure from Asa Gray— How can you imagine there can be a doubt about the reply? Of course I shall be exceedingly glad to have it if it is good— I wish to see articles both for & against, so as to have it clearly understood that the Review is a `Champ libre'—
Paying for it however is what I unfortunately do not see my way to at present— Until the circulation reaches 6 or 7 hundred we shall hardly be able to pay anything & even then I am afraid not much— But get us the article if you can & if your friend is the most rabid advocate you ever had so long as he argues the question scientifically & is'n't abusive (beyond reason) I am quite sure Busk will agree with me on the propriety of inserting it
My desire to have an anti-Darwinian article—is not so much because I want to see you criticised & because I want all the world to understand that it is not a party journal.
I return A. Grays note. Will he write for us?
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Dated by the relationship to the following letter. CD forwarded the postscript to Asa Gray. - +
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See letter to T. H. Huxley, 11 December [1860]. - +
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Huxley was one of the editors of the new series of the Natural History Review. - +
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George Busk, a close friend of Huxley's, was also one of the editors of the Natural History Review.