My dear Huxley

I had a note this morning from Asa Gray saying that Wright was very glad to hear by my first note that his Review had not arrived & was lost, & was very sorry to hear by my second note that it had arrived & was sent to Nat. Hist. Review.² So he does not estimate it highly.— I write now to ask you, when done with, (as I suppose it is) to send it me, as Wright asks me to keep it for him.—³

We have decided to move all our household on June 3^d. or 10^th to Torquay for 6 or 8 weeks for my daughters sake (who has been going on very well) for my own sake, who have been extra dyspeptic & fit for utter extermination.⁴ If you feel inclined to be a very good man (but I do not urge it, as I know how hard you are worked) you will let us have a line to tell us how M^rs Huxley is, & how you yourself are.—

So poor dear Henslow is at last gone;⁵ as good & true & noble a man as ever lived.—

Hooker tells me that the squib in Punch was by Sir P. Egerton, which astonishes me;— I did not think it very good.—⁶ One of Lubbock’s brothers, I fear, is dying, from being thrown out of carriage—, Head badly hurt & arm badly fractured⁷

Farewell | Yours most sincerely | C. Darwin