To T. H. Huxley [26 January 1860]1
[London]
Thursday
My dear Huxley
I have arranged all about the Pigeons.—2 All the main kinds & some Dovecot & some pretty Toy Pigeons will be sent in open show Baskets.—
But please observe you must write 4 clear days before to “John Baily Esqe Junr 113 Mount St. Grosvenor Sqe” & tell him where & at what hour the Pigeons must be sent.3 And please remember I promised he shd have ticket for Lecture, though I suspect the old Father-Poulterer will seize on the Ticket.—
They would not hear of any payment, but I promised that the man who brought & attended the Pigeons should have a douceur of s2 . d6 or 5s. — Perhaps two men will be sent.—
Ever yours | C. Darwin
Do not forget 3 tickets for my Family as you promised.—
Please put down my Brother as Subscriber to Herbert Spencer Book—4
E. Darwin Esqr 57 Queen Anne St | (W.)
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Spencer, Herbert. 1860–2. First principles. London: George Manwaring; Williams & Norgate.
Summary
Has arranged with Baily the poulterer for pigeons for THH to exhibit at Royal Institution lecture.
E. A. Darwin will subscribe to H. Spencer’s book [First principles: a system of philosophy (1862)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2673
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 119)
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2673,” accessed on 13 September 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2673.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8