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From Charles Voysey   17 November 1876

Camden House | Dulwich | S.E.

Nov: 17.1876

My dear Sir

You will do me a very great favour if you will read the enclosed proposed protest, & also give me yr. opinion, as to it as a whole, or of any part of it.1

Whatever you are kind enough to say shall be kept strictly private unless you wish the contrary.—

I am taking counsel only of yourself, & Messrs Tyndall & Huxley.2

I will forward a copy for your signature by & by.

I am | Dear Sir | Very sincerely yours | Charles Voysey

1
The exact subject of the protest has not been identified, but see the letter from T. H. Huxley, 19 November 1876. According to L. Huxley ed. 1900, 1: 470, ‘An extremely Broad Church divine was endeavouring to obtain the signatures of men of science to a document he had drawn up protesting against certain orthodox doctrines.’ Voysey was a clergyman who had been deprived of his living in 1871 for unorthodoxy (ODNB).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10677,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10677