From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[1860–70?]
Source of text:
Janet Huxley (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks THH for the delightful evening he gave Frank [Darwin].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Thanks THH for the delightful evening he gave Frank [Darwin].
Is "almost certain" plant is Menispermum canadense.
CD’s health remains bad and as he grows older he becomes weaker.
Will keep THH’s secret [of authorship of Times review of Origin]. It has made deep impression.
J. D. Dana’s illness.
Daily News accuses him of plagiarising Vestiges.
Returning Thomas George Bonney’s certificate, which it was a pleasure to sign.
Delighted that JH is interested in his book [Origin?]
Sends photograph in case recipient collects them.