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To T. H. Huxley   23 January [1863 or 1864]1

Down Bromley Kent

Jan. 23d

My dear Huxley

I have signed the enclosed with much pleasure.2

I cordially thank you for your kind, most kind, expressions about the medal.3 Sympathy & not fame is the true & good reward of labour.—

Yours most truly | Ch. Darwin

1
The date range is conjectured by CD’s mention of the Copley Medal (see n. 3, below).
2
The enclosure has not been found.
3
The letter from Huxley has not been found. CD was nominated for the Royal Society of London’s Copley Medal in 1862 and 1863 but his candidature was not successful (Royal Society, Council minutes, vol. 3 (1870), pp. 124, 160). CD was nominated again in 1864 and awarded the medal in November of that year (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Edward Sabine, 3 November 1864).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-2662,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-2662