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To T. H. Huxley   [7 May] 18801

Down, Beckenham, Kent

Friday 1880.

My dear Huxley

I have just read your “Coming of age” in Nature.2 I am quite delighted with it. Like everything which you write it seems to contain the whole subject in a few words, and is unanswerable.—

Ever yours with admiration | Ch. Darwin

Copy, ALS3

1
The day and month are established by the publication date of Huxley’s article (see n. 2, below), and the relationship between this letter and the letter from T. H. Huxley, 10 May 1880. In 1880, 7 May was a Friday.
2
The opening article of the issue of Nature for 6 May 1880 was Huxley’s ‘The coming of age of the Origin of Species’ (T. H. Huxley 1880c).
3
The text from ‘everything’ has been transcribed from the original; the rest is from a copy.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12597,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12597