My Dear Huxley

In a letter from Mr. Dallas just received he says he has just been reading Häckel’s book & thinks it one of the most remarkable of our time; & then asks w^d the Ray Soc. publish a translation?¹ As you see every body, I have thought this suggestion worth passing on for the chance of your agreeing with it.

The German is too difficult for ordinary mortals, though a joke to Henle who troubles the peace of all my family.²

This note requires no sort of answer.

I hope M^rs Huxley & all of you are pretty well. I often think of your little man & can fancy I see him now with the spoon sticking perpendicularly out of his mouth & his eyes as roguish eyes as those of an angel.³

As M^rs Huxley won’t sell him she might loan him to us & I w^d return him with his manners highly polished.

Ever yours | C. Darwin