To T. H. Huxley 25 November [1859]
Ilkley Wells House | Otley Yorkshire
Nov. 25th
My dear Huxley
I rejoice beyond measure at Lecture.1 I shall be at home in a fortnight, when I could send you splendid folio coloured drawings of Pigeons.2 Would this be in time? If not I think I could write to my servant & have them sent to you.— If I do not hear I shall understand that about 15 or 16 days will be in time.—
I have had a kind yet slashing letter against me from poor dear old Sedgwick, “who has laughed till his sides ached at my Book”3 Phillips is cautious but decidedly, I fear, hostile.—4
Hurrah for Lecture it is grand!
In Haste | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Eaton, John Matthews. 1858. A treatise on the art of breeding and managing tame, domestic, foreign, and fancy pigeons. London. [vols. 6,7]
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Summary
Rejoices over THH’s lecture ["On species and races, and their origin", 10 Feb 1860, Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1858–62): 195–200] to be given at Royal Institution. Offers pigeon illustrations.
Adam Sedgwick has sent a "slashing" letter [2548] about Origin.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2554
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Sent from
- Ilkley
- Source of text
- Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 74)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2554,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2554.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7