From T. H. Huxley 6 July 1866
The Athenaeum
July 6th. 1866
My dear Darwin
If I had got your Memorial signed & sent to ‘My Lords’,1 My Lords would simply have remitted it to the Hydrographer—so as I know Richards & have always found him a pleasant & helpful sort of man—I thought my best course was to go to him at once with your memorial in my pocket.2
I have just done so & find that he knows all about the place having been one of the party who dug up the bones which were obtained at Gallegos3 He thoroughly interests himself in the object of your Memorial (which I have left with him) & promises to give all the requisite instructions to Capt. Mayne.4
Dr Cunningham,5 the Naturalist, is in communication with me & I will see he is properly primed on the same subject
Evil man that you are you say not a word about yourself—so I hope that you are prospering & Mrs. Darwin6 better than she was
Ever | Yours faithfully | T H Huxley
Footnotes
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
Summary
Has taken memorial to G. H. Richards, the Hydrographer. He favours the proposal and will instruct Capt. Mayne. THH will communicate with Dr Cunningham, the naturalist for the expedition.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5149
- From
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Athenaeum Club
- Source of text
- DAR 166: 311
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5149,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5149.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14
