To H. A. Huxley 28 July 1875
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
July 28. 75
My dear Mrs Huxley
Will you be so kind as to keep the enclosed safely & when your husband1 returns ask him to sign it & return it to me.2 I hope you & he are all well
Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
My dear Mrs Huxley
The candidate & scribe has a word to say himself. I shall be very proud if Mr Huxley will be so kind as to sign my paper
I don’t know whether you have started for your summer holiday but I hope you are now that St Swithin has left off for a bit—3 Weather is very important to me a landed proprietor—4 I am said to have the best stack of hay in the parish— Please give my love to Jessy Maidie & all your children.5 With kind remembrance to Mr Huxley
Yours affectionately | Francis Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Post Office directory of the six home counties: Post Office directory of the six home counties, viz., Essex, Herts, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex. London: W. Kelly & Co. 1845–78.
Summary
Asks HAH to keep Francis Darwin’s nomination paper [for Linnean Society] for Huxley to sign on return. FD appends personal note.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10098
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Henrietta Anne Heathorn/Henrietta Anne Huxley
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 318)
- Physical description
- LS 1p, encl ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10098,” accessed on 10 June 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10098.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
