From T. H. Huxley [8 February 1873]1
My dear Darwin
I send you by book-post a copy of M. Arnolds “Literature & dogma” which he has forwarded to me for you—2 He told me the other day that he should not send the book directly to you, as he particularly wanted not to trouble you to write an acknowledgement
I hope you are thriving in these beastly East winds I am travelling between the two stations of Dyspepsia & health thus:
With best regards to Mrs Darwin | Ever | Yours faithfully | T. H. Huxley
I am in great hopes we shall secure the Presidential Chair of R. S. for Hooker—but of course that is between ourselves3
Footnotes
Bibliography
Arnold, Matthew. 1873. Literature & dogma: an essay towards a better apprehension of the Bible. London: Smith, Elder.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
Forwards Matthew Arnold’s Literature and dogma [1873].
Hopes they can secure Hooker for President of Royal Society.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8761
- From
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 166: 328
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8761,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21
