From T. H. Huxley 2 July 1878
July 2. 1878
South Kensington
My dear Darwin
My friend Marsh of Yale is over here & wants badly to see you1
He is a right good fellow & just the sort of man you would like— So if you are well enough to be bothered with strangers I put in a plea for him
His address is Palace Hotel, Buckingham Gate
I am just back from Margate. Madge is slowly mending & I begin to hope we are safe from the after consequence of diphtheria—2 I trust we shall all be together again on Sunday week
Don’t answer this | Ever | Yours very faithfully | T H Huxley
Footnotes
Othniel Charles Marsh, professor of palaeontology at Yale University, visited Europe in the summer of 1878; Marsh had first met Huxley in 1862 (Schuchert 1938, pp. 19 and 32).
Huxley’s daughter Marian was recuperating after a dangerous bout of diphtheria (see letter from T. H. Huxley, 8 June 1878).
Summary
Othniel Marsh of Yale would like to visit CD.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11582
- From
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- South Kensington
- Source of text
- DAR 166: 350
- Physical description
- 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11582,” accessed on 9 March 2021, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-11582.xml
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