To T. H. Huxley 23 January [1863 or 1864]1
Down Bromley Kent
Jan. 23d
My dear Huxley
I have signed the enclosed with much pleasure.2
I cordially thank you for your kind, most kind, expressions about the medal.3 Sympathy & not fame is the true & good reward of labour.—
Yours most truly | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
THH’s efforts to obtain Copley Medal for CD fail. Thanks THH for kind words of sympathy.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2662
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 254)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2662,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2662.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11