From T. H. Huxley   2 July 1878

July 2. 1878

South Kensington

My dear Darwin

My friend Marsh of Yale is over here & wants badly to see you1

He is a right good fellow & just the sort of man you would like— So if you are well enough to be bothered with strangers I put in a plea for him

His address is Palace Hotel, Buckingham Gate

I am just back from Margate. Madge is slowly mending & I begin to hope we are safe from the after consequence of diphtheria—2 I trust we shall all be together again on Sunday week

Don’t answer this | Ever | Yours very faithfully | T H Huxley

1
Othniel Charles Marsh, professor of palaeontology at Yale University, visited Europe in the summer of 1878; Marsh had first met Huxley in 1862 (Schuchert 1938, pp. 19 and 32).
2
Huxley’s daughter Marian was recuperating after a dangerous bout of diphtheria (see letter from T. H. Huxley, 8 June 1878).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11582,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11582