To T. H. Huxley 30 May [1865]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
May 30
My dear Huxley
I thank you most sincerely for granting my request in so kind a manner.2
When ever you read the M.S. be so kind as to suspend your judgment until you have read the whole, & then turn the subject a little in your mind. I have thought of it much, more than appears in the M.S. & am becoming convinced that some such view will have to be adopted; but I see that it over throws in an uncomfortable manner one’s common view on ordinary development.3 The style of the M.S has to be improved.
You will have to take some of my facts & partial conclusions on trust, but the greater number of the facts will be quite as familiar to you as to me.
You will really do me a very great service & with cordial thanks believe me yours sincerely | Ch Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks for THH’s willingness to read Pangenesis MS. Thinks some such view will have to be adopted but it overthrows, in an uncomfortable manner, ordinary development.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4841
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 217)
- Physical description
- 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4841,” accessed on 19 February 2019, http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/DCP-LETT-4841
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13