From H. A. Huxley and T. H. Huxley 17 October 1872
Summary
Appreciation of the "marriage gift"; their affection for CD.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley; Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Oct 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 285 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8562 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … A. Huxley, H. A. Darwin, C. R. …
- … Huxley, T. H. Heathorn, H. …
- … H. Huxley 17 October 1872 …
- … See letter to H. A. Huxley, 16 October [1872] . …
- … From H. A. Huxley and T. …
- … Huxley. Hal says—that there now only remains for him to buy up all the “Origin of Species”, & to paper the new walls with them! Seen & approved by me Commander in chief (T. H. …
From T. H. Huxley and H. A. Huxley 20 September 1871
Summary
Has received Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [see 7940].
Has reviewed Quarterly Review article and 2d ed. of Genesis of species for the Contemporary Review [18 (1871): 443–76].
Mivart has hopelessly misunderstood Suarez [Disputiones (1630)] on evolution.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley; Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 39–42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7953 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … A. Huxley, H. A. Darwin, C. R. …
- … From T. H. Huxley and H. A. Huxley 20 September 1871 …
- … Huxley, T. H. Heathorn, H. …
- … 1871 issue of Contemporary Review ( T. H. Huxley 1871b ), Huxley criticised St George …
- … the Wellesley index. See letter from T. H. Huxley, 30 July 1871 . Henry Huxley was CD’s …
- … see Correspondence vol. 16, letter from T. H. Huxley, 10 June 1868 . Huxley’s wife was …
- … the works of Francisco Suárez in T. H. Huxley 1871b . The St Andrews University Library …
- … to questions of creation and evolution ( T. H. Huxley 1871b , p. 451). In Tractatus de …
From T. H. Huxley 20 July 1868
Summary
Prof. Kühne would like to visit CD.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 July 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 221.4: 254 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6283 |
From T. H. Huxley 2 July 1863
Summary
Too busy to examine specimen. Will ask W. H. Flower to do it. Long catalogue of what keeps him busy and concerned.
C. Carter Blake, "a jackal of Owen’s", is the reviewer in Edinburgh Review and Anthropological Review [see 4223]. Has sent back his diploma of Hon. Fellowship to Anthropological Society.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 July 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 298 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4228 |
Matches: 28 hits
- … of you occasionally I hope M rs Darwin is well Ever yours faithfully | T H Huxley …
- … Huxley, T. H. Darwin, C. R. …
- … From T. H. Huxley 2 July 1863 …
- … See letter to T. H. Huxley, 27 June [1863] . William Henry Flower . …
- … T. H. Huxley 1863c . Huxley was appointed Hunterian Professor of comparative anatomy at …
- … 17 March [1863] . See letter to T. H. Huxley, 27 June [1863] and n. 18. The reference …
- … Correspondence vol. 8). See letter to T. H. Huxley, 27 June [1863] and n. 13. Huxley …
- … Blake’s anonymous critical review of T. H. Huxley 1863b in the Edinburgh Review ([Blake] …
- … the manner in which the account in T. H. Huxley 1863a of his long-standing dispute with …
- … subsequently republished in book form ( T. H. Huxley 1864 ). According to Leonard Huxley …
- … they subsequently formed the basis of T. H. Huxley 1866a . As Hunterian Professor of …
- … medical publisher, John Churchill ( T. H. Huxley 1877 , p. iii, and L. Huxley ed. …
- … anatomy of invertebrated animals ( T. H. Huxley 1871 and 1877). As naturalist of the …
- … Flett 1937 , pp. 66–7; see also T. H. Huxley and Etheridge 1865). Huxley had recently …
- … Journal of the Geological Society ( T. H. Huxley 1862b ). Huxley presented a ‘brief …
- … Royal Society on 18 December 1862 ( T. H. Huxley 1862c ). Huxley apparently refers to …
- … read before the Royal Society on 28 January 1864, and published as T. H. Huxley 1864b . …
- … T. H. Huxley 1866b . Since 1849, the Geological Survey had published an occasional …
- … at length to a number on fish ( T. H. Huxley 1861a , 1861b, and 1861c). He contributed …
- … and made a further contribution to the series in 1872 ( T. H. Huxley 1866b and 1872). …
- … T. H. Huxley 1865 . Thomas Oldham was the director of the Geological Survey of India ( …
- … A. Desmond 1994–7 , 1: 315–16). See letter to T. H. Huxley, 27 June [1863] and n. 12. …
- … Huxley refers to Jeffries Wyman and to T. H. Huxley 1863b . The first …
- … American edition of T. H. Huxley 1863b was published by D. Appleton & Co . …
- … York in May or early June 1863 ( T. H. Huxley 1863d ; see American Publishers’ Circular …
- … issued pirated editions of both T. H. Huxley 1863a and 1863b (see L. Huxley ed. 1900, …
- … 1987 , pp. 245–54. See letter to T. H. Huxley, 27 June [1863] and n. 16. Huxley refers …
- … Huxley. 2 vols. London: Michael Joseph. DNB : Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols. ). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. …
From Henrietta Anne Huxley 1 January 1865
Summary
Has just been shown CD’s remarks on Tennyson. Upbraids CD for "Owen-like quotation" out of context, and getting source wrong. "If ""facts"" in Origin are of this sort I agree with Bishop of Oxford."
| Author: | Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 284 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4733 |
From T. H. Huxley 3 February 1880
Summary
Has read Butler’s letter and CD’s draft reply and Litchfield’s letter. Has no hesitation in saying CD should take no notice. Litchfield’s advice is judicious.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Feb 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B82–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12457 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … living in the dark for a week & I hope you are all flourishing Ever Yours | T H Huxley …
- … Huxley, T. H. Darwin, C. R. …
- … From T. H. Huxley 3 February 1880 …
- … See letter to T. H. Huxley, 2 February 1880 . CD enclosed a copy of the Athenæum …
- … into a single class, Chondrichthyes ( T. H. Huxley 1880b , p. 660). Huxley also alludes to …
- … H. E. Litchfield, [1 February 1880] . Dogfish sharks and chimaeras are types of cartilaginous fishes; Huxley …
- … H. E. Litchfield, [1 February 1880] , enclosure 1). Joseph Dalton Hooker was a close friend of both CD and Huxley. …
- … Huxley alludes to the biblical verse, ‘He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief’ (Isaiah 53:3). Butler’s book was Evolution, old and new ( Butler 1879 ). CD had had a similar falling out with St George Jackson Mivart after Mivart suggested in an anonymous essay review in the Quarterly Review that, in an article on marriage, George Howard Darwin spoke in an approving strain of the encouragement of vice to check population growth ( [Mivart] 1874 , p. 70, G. H. …
From T. H. Huxley 3 January 1881
Summary
Returns [Wallace] memorial.
Hopes to be able to send classification paper soon. [See 12935.]
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1881 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 9: 202) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12971 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Huxley, T. H. Darwin, C. R. …
- … 1881 to you & M rs Darwin & all Ever Yours | T H Huxley Wife is getting a little better & …
- … From T. H. Huxley 3 January 1881 …
- … particularly of the Mammalia’ in The Times ( T. H. Huxley 1880b ; see Correspondence vol. …
- … 28, letter to T. H. Huxley, [29 December 1880] ). Henrietta Anne Huxley had been unwell …
- … since November (see Correspondence vol. 28, letter from T. H. Huxley, 14 November 1880 ). …
- … Correspondence vol. 28, letter to T. H. Huxley, [29 December 1880] ). For a transcription …
From T. H. Huxley 1 June 1865
Summary
MS arrived. Has glanced at it and sees he must put on his sharpest spectacles and best considering cap.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 June 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 308 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4845 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … I shall not write till I have thought well on the whole subject Ever Yours | T H Huxley …
- … Huxley, T. H. Darwin, C. R. …
- … From T. H. Huxley 1 June 1865 …
- … for Variation (see letter to T. H. Huxley, 27 May [1865] and n. 4). No letter from …
- … been found, but see the letter to T. H. Huxley, 12 July [1865] , for CD’s response to …
From T. H. Huxley 20 February 1863
Summary
Has not answered CD’s former letters. Has been ill. Will look up fish business as soon as he is square again.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 297 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4001 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Huxley, T. H. Darwin, C. R. …
- … I will look up the fish business Ever | Yours faithfully | T H Huxley Feb. 20 th 1863 …
- … From T. H. Huxley 20 February 1863 …
- … his stay in London (see letter to T. H. Huxley, [8 February 1863] ). CD had consulted …
- … on polydactylism (see letters to T. H. Huxley, [8 February 1863] and 16 February [1863] , …
- … See letter to T. H. Huxley, 18 [February 1863] . The reference is to Huxley’s …
- … Evidence as to man’s place in nature ( T. H. Huxley 1863b ). CD stated …
- … his opinion on T. H. Huxley 1863b in his letter to Huxley of 26 [February 1863] . Huxley …
From T. H. Huxley 13 November 1868
Summary
CD is welcome to come for breakfast on Sunday.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Nov 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 315 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6460 |
From T. H. Huxley 30 October 1875
Summary
Encloses an invitation to give evidence to Vivisection Commission. Satisfied with way things were going, but E. E. Klein’s evidence that he is utterly indifferent to pain of animals has done great mischief.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Oct 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 351, DAR 166: 343 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10234 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … with regard to the time of your coming Ever | Yours very faithfully | T H Huxley …
- … Huxley, T. H. Darwin, C. R. …
- … From T. H. Huxley 30 October 1875 …
- … with the whole business Ever | Yours | T H Huxley Of course keep the little article on …
- … of Insectivorous plants (see letter to T. H. Huxley, 23 October [1875] ). See letter to …
- … on vivisection , pp. v–vi). See letter to T. H. Huxley, 23 October [1875] and n. 2. The …
From T. H. Huxley 3 April 1876
Summary
A Dr Sarazin offers services as translator.
Will read CD’s letter about Robert Swinhoe to Royal Society Council and see what can be done for him.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 345 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10438 |
From T. H. Huxley 7 December 1880
Summary
THH will be at Kensington.
He has been so busy that he has let the Wallace business stand over.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 354 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12895 |
From Thomas Henry Huxley [before 30 January 1868]
Summary
Congratulations on George’s attaining Second Wrangler.
Variation has just arrived. Wishes he had two heads or a body that needed no rest.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 30 Jan 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 313 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5814 |
From T. H. Huxley 10 October 1871
Summary
Answers CD on transitional forms. Has no doubt Zeuglodon is transitional form between Carnivora and Cetacea.
Met Mivart in Manchester. Some doubt that he was the author of Quarterly Review article.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 326 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8000 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … Huxley, T. H. Darwin, C. R. …
- … regards to all | Ever Yours faithfully | T H Huxley 26. Abbey Place | Oc. 10 th . 1871 …
- … From T. H. Huxley 10 October 1871 …
- … Anne Huxley . Huxley’ s review ( T. H. Huxley 1871b ) was reprinted in Critiques and …
- … addresses ( T. H. Huxley 1873 ). …
- … See letter to T. H. Huxley, 9 October [1871] . Huxley refers to Ernst Haeckel and …
- … to Haeckel 1866 . See T. H. Huxley 1868 . Huxley divided the class Aves into three …
- … Ratitae; and Carinatae (see T. H. Huxley 1867 ). In Origin 6th ed. , p. 302, CD …
- … s article, ‘Mr. Darwin’s critics’ ( T. H. Huxley 1871b ), reviewed St George Jackson …
- … of the Dinosaurians. ’ See letter to T. H. Huxley, 9 October [1871] and n. 2. Huxley …
- … Huxley refers to Joseph Dalton Hooker and to T. H. Huxley 1871b (see letter to T. …
- … H. Huxley, 5 October [1871] ). See also letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 October 1871] and …
- … in Birmingham on 9 October 1871 ( T. H. Huxley 1871c ). The Metaphysical Society was …
- … Huxley, Thomas Henry. 1873. Critiques and addresses. London: Macmillan. Kargon, Robert Hugh. 1977. Science in Victorian Manchester: enterprise and expertise. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ODNB : Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition. ) Edited by H. …
From T. H. Huxley 10 October [1862]
Summary
Thanks for a contribution ["On the so-called ""auditory-sac"" of cirripedes", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1863): 115–16; Collected papers 2: 85–7]. Is sending a proof.
This year’s lecture to working men to be devoted to CD’s book.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Oct [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 295 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3756 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … a proof in due time Ever | Yours truly | T H Huxley Jermyn S t Oct r . 10 th I can’t find …
- … Huxley, T. H. Darwin, C. R. …
- … From T. H. Huxley 10 October [1862] …
- … 2: 85–7. ] Bibby, Cyril. 1959. T. H. Huxley. Scientist, humanist and educator. London: …
- … is established by the reference to T. H. Huxley 1863b (see n. 3, below). The reference …
- … the phenomena of organic nature’ ( T. H. Huxley 1863b ; see Bibby 1959 , pp. 97–100 and …
From T. H. Huxley [4 April 1875]
Summary
Sends his thoughts on [vivisection] petition. Thinks they might make petition more talked about. Leaves it to J. Paget, Burdon Sanderson, and CD to deal with.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4 Apr 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 337 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9875 |
From T. H. Huxley 28 September 1871
Summary
Sends proof of article for Contemporary Review [18 (1871): 443–76].
Is grieved to hear that Mivart is author of Quarterly Review article. THH thought better of him than that.
Compares the Origin to Plato’s Republic: "it will remain fresh for two thousand years".
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 43–46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7973 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … Huxley, T. H. Darwin, C. R. …
- … Huxley and H. A. Huxley, 20 September 1871 . …
- … From T. H. Huxley 28 September 1871 …
- … Huxley and H. A. Huxley, 20 September 1871 and n. 5. CD added a chapter to Origin 6th …
- … improved me & diminished my anterior curvature Ever Yours faithfully | T. H. Huxley …
- … in the Contemporary Review ( T. H. Huxley 1871b ). Huxley refers to Joseph Dalton …
- … Review . Huxley’s article ( T. H. Huxley 1871b ) was published in the November 1871 …
- … particular to Mivart. See letter to T. H. Huxley, 21 September [1871] . Huxley refers to …
- … Huxley refers to Henrietta Anne Huxley and Henry Huxley ; see letter from T. H. …
- … Review ([Mivart] 1871c; see letter to T. H. Huxley, 21 September [1871] and n. 6). In …
- … his article ‘Mr. Darwin’s critics’ ( T. H. Huxley …
- … Huxley took particular care to criticise Mivart’s use of the work of the Catholic theologian Francisco Suárez in Genesis of species ( Mivart 1871a ); see letter from T. H. …
From T. H. Huxley 19 November 1876
Summary
Agrees with CD that Charles Voysey’s "Protest" would not do any good.
Has less sympathy with half-hearted sentimental school than with thorough-going orthodoxy. On theological dogmas, benevolence of the Creator.
[Encloses copy of his letter to Voysey.]
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Nov 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 346–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10679 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … a good deal I am | Yours very faithfully | T H Huxley You are at liberty to make what use …
- … Huxley, T. H. Darwin, C. R. …
- … From T. H. Huxley 19 November 1876 …
- … to M rs Darwin | Ever yours very truly | T H Huxley Nov 18 th 76 Dear Sir I have read the …
- … and H. A. Huxley had visited the United States in August and September 1876 (L. Huxley ed. …
- … on 11 September 1876 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Henry Huxley . David Hume . T. H. …
From T. H. Huxley 18 December 1868
Summary
Sends letter [from Haeckel?] opened by mistake.
August Schleicher a great loss.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 316 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6498 |
Document type
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Author
| Huxley, T. H. | (89) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (74) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (10) |
| Rich, Anthony | (9) |
| Lyell, Charles | (8) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (344) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (89) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (74) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (10) |
| Rich, Anthony | (9) |
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