To T. H. Huxley 24 December [1859]
Down Bromley Kent
Dec. 24th
My dear Huxley
I have been sorry that I could not come up this week, but it has been quite out of the question.—1
I send all the articles specified & the M.S.; but I looked this over last night & it is really impossible for you to make heads or tails of it.— If you try; perhaps the correlated peculiarities in Pigeons & especially (p. 118 M.S.) the History of the Breeds, would be best worth glancing at.—2 The History shows how ancient the breeds are, & yet that some of them have sensibly changed.— The account of the Pigeons will appear intolerably long & tedious, but I really think that nothing is actually superfluous; & I have thought it well worth while to treat one set of domestic varieties with care & minuteness.—
Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Sends MS on pigeons for THH’s lecture at Royal Institution.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2600
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Private collection
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2600,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2600.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7
