To T. H. Huxley 22 May [1861]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
May 22d.
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 3d. or 10th 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 Mrs 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
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
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
Chauncey Wright’s review of Origin.
Family plans for Torquay in summer.
J. S. Henslow’s death.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3153
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 164)
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3153,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3153.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 9