To T. H. Huxley   11 June [1878]¹

My dear Huxley

I thank you very much for your article on Evolution. It seems to me capitally done; but how you find time to pick the brains of all those old fellows, about whom a gentleman of the present day knows nothing, is astonishing. It is extremely curious about Lamarck: one would like to learn, as you say, what made him change his front so completely.² I do not know whether I ought to return the article, but sh^d. like to keep it, & will do so unless I hear to the contrary.

We often thought & talked about you during your late distress; for we know what that kind of misery is. I still look back with horror to what we endured when some of our children were dangerously ill with scarlet-fever & we were in a panic about the others, & then when my wife caught it, that was a climax.—³

Ever yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin