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From T. H. Huxley   3 April 1876

4 Marlborough Place | NW

April 3. 1876

My dear Darwin

Are you likely to be at the Soirée of the Royal Society on Wednesday?1

A Dr. Sarazin a frenchman with a wonderfully good knowledge of English who has translated young Arnolds books and is translating my Lay Sermons greatly wants to see you & to tender his services for the translation of any of your books2 He is a very competent man & you might find him of use—

I will read your letter about Swinhoe to the Council—& see what can be done for him—3

We have had the mumps in the house & my wife4 has unluckily taken it   She is getting better I am glad to say but is weak

With all our loves | Ever | Yours | T H Huxley

1
The Royal Society of London conversazione took place on Wednesday 5 April 1876; the event was reported in Nature, 13 April 1876, pp. 473–4. CD did not attend (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 April 1876).
2
Jules Sarazin translated Matthew Arnold’s Literature & dogma (Arnold 1873 and 1876), and Huxley’s Lay sermons, addresses, and reviews (T. H. Huxley 1870 and 1877), into French.
3
CD’s letter about Robert Swinhoe has not been found. CD had first proposed Swinhoe for a Royal Society fellowship in 1874 but the proposal form (Royal Society Archives EC/1876/18) was resuspended in 1875 and 1876; see this volume, Supplement, letter from Robert Swinhoe, 14 January 1874 and n. 2. Swinhoe was elected on 1 June 1876 (Record of the Royal Society of London).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10438,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10438