From Thomas Henry Huxley [before 30 January 1868]
Summary
Congratulations on George’s attaining Second Wrangler.
Variation has just arrived. Wishes he had two heads or a body that needed no rest.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 30 Jan 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 313 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5814 |
From T. H. Huxley 3 January 1881
Summary
Returns [Wallace] memorial.
Hopes to be able to send classification paper soon. [See 12935.]
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 9: 202) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12971 |
From T. H. Huxley 28 December 1880
Summary
Sees no use in a deputation. Suggests CD send the memorial with a letter.
Family news.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 356 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12949 |
From T. H. Huxley and H. A. Huxley 20 September 1871
Summary
Has received Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [see 7940].
Has reviewed Quarterly Review article and 2d ed. of Genesis of species for the Contemporary Review [18 (1871): 443–76].
Mivart has hopelessly misunderstood Suarez [Disputiones (1630)] on evolution.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley; Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 39–42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7953 |
To T. H. Huxley 9 April [1860]
Summary
Owen on the branchiae of Balanidae.
The Edinburgh Review article on the Origin [by Owen, 111 (1860): 487–532] full of misrepresentations, with a brutal attack on THH.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 9 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 111) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2751 |
To T. H. Huxley 30 April [1862]
Summary
Thinks THH’s [Anniversary] Address [to Geological Society, Feb 1862, Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): xl–liv] a wonderful condensed and original summary of palaeontology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 30 Apr [1862] |
Classmark: | Paul C. Richards Autographs (dealer) (Catalogue 183) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3522 |
From Thomas Henry Huxley 21 January 1870
Summary
Refers to "Devonshire Man"’s attack on him ["Professor Huxley’s last new theory", Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Jan 1870, p. 6]. His intention to answer – a waste, except for political bearing of Celt question ["Professor Huxley on Celts and Teutons", Pall Mall Gaz. 21 Jan 1870, p. 6].
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Jan 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 323 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7084 |
From T. H. Huxley 14 November 1880
Summary
Will support the petition for a pension for Wallace.
CD’s paragraph [about Wyville Thomson, see 12796] was so good that if he had written it he would have sent it to the printer, but [for CD] it is best to refrain.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 353 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12815 |
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- … wife is very much on her back still I am sorry to say With all our love | Ever | Yours | T H Huxley …
- … H. Huxley, 5 November 1880 and nn. 1 and 3). The expression appears in the poem ‘An elegy, to an old beauty’ by Thomas Parnell : ‘And all that’s madly wild, or oddly gay,/ We call it only pretty Fanny’s way’ ( Parnell 1833 , p. 81). Huxley’s wife …
To John Tyndall 18 April [1873]
Summary
The Huxley fund amounts to £1955. CD trembles about THH’s answer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 18 Apr [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 15 (EH 88205953) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8867 |
To G. H. Darwin 27–8 February [1881]
Summary
Describes lecture at Royal Institution by J. S. Burdon Sanderson on movement of plants and animals; JSBS’s preliminary part was so long that he never got to the plants.
Comments on the triumph of the ladies in the voting at Cambridge.
Mentions F. Galton’s visit to Down, a call on the Huxleys, and a visit with the Duke of Argyll.
Tells a story about the absent-mindedness of Burdon Sanderson.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 27–8 Feb [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13068 |
From T. H. Huxley 11 November 1866
Summary
Thanks for 4th ed. of Origin.
What a basting CD gives "our mutual friend" [Owen].
Glad he argrees with THH on Jamaica affair [Gov. Eyre and the "rebellion"].
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Nov 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 312 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5275 |
From T. H. Huxley 2 October 1865
Summary
Has returned from holiday. Family news.
Concern over Hooker’s health.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 310 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4905 |
From T. H. Huxley 28 September 1871
Summary
Sends proof of article for Contemporary Review [18 (1871): 443–76].
Is grieved to hear that Mivart is author of Quarterly Review article. THH thought better of him than that.
Compares the Origin to Plato’s Republic: "it will remain fresh for two thousand years".
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 43–46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7973 |
To T. H. Huxley 29 [September 1855]
Summary
Responds to THH’s questioning of his observations on cirripede anatomy with extensive discussion of what he observed. Admits his elementary knowledge of microscopical structures but seriously doubts he has erred. Cement glands, ovarian tubes, etc.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 29 [Sept 1855] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 21); Janet Huxley (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1757 |
From T. H. Huxley 28 June 1881
Summary
Has heard from Haeckel the story of refusal [by Humboldt fund] of Berlin Academy to support him because he was supporter of Darwin. R. Virchow has been so unfair to Haeckel that THH is inclined to think it is a true account. But obtaining the funds in England is extremely difficult.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 June 1881 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 9: 211) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13223 |
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- … wife’s correspondence with a large part of the United Kingdom not forgetting M rs Darwin With kindest remembrances to her & all your party Ever | Yours very truly | T H Huxley …
- … H. Huxley, 22 June 1881 and n. 2). For more on sources of funding, see the letter to Ernst Haeckel, 25 June 1881 and n. 3, and the letter to Francis Darwin, 26 June [1881] , n. 6. Huxley refers to his duties as an inspector of fisheries; the other inspector was Spencer Walpole . Grasmere is a village in the Lake District; Huxley, with his wife, …
To Ernst Haeckel 19 November 1868
Summary
Congratulates EH on birth of child.
Mentions projected translation of Generelle Morphologie.
Comments on EH’s last book [Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte]. Criticises EH’s statements on palaeontology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 19 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/20) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6466 |
From T. H. Huxley 12 September 1868
Summary
BAAS Norwich meeting. Hooker [President] came out in great force. "Darwinismus" spread over the sections and crept into everything. CD will have rare happiness of seeing his ideas triumph during his life.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 314 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6363 |
From T. H. Huxley 10 October 1871
Summary
Answers CD on transitional forms. Has no doubt Zeuglodon is transitional form between Carnivora and Cetacea.
Met Mivart in Manchester. Some doubt that he was the author of Quarterly Review article.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 326 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8000 |
From T. H. Huxley 5 October 1864
Summary
Surprised at Kölliker’s misunderstanding; of Flourens he could have believed anything.
Family news.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Oct 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 302 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4627 |
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- … wife especially being abundantly provided with her favourite East wind— Your Godson is growing a very sturdy fellow—and I begin to puzzle my head with thinking what he is & what he is not to be taught— Please to remember me very kindly to M rs Darwin | & believe me | Ever yours faithfully | T H Huxley …
From T. H. Huxley 3 April 1876
Summary
A Dr Sarazin offers services as translator.
Will read CD’s letter about Robert Swinhoe to Royal Society Council and see what can be done for him.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 345 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10438 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (39) |
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Huxley, T. H. | (35) |
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