Ɛpsilon

To T. H. Huxley   4 March [1860]1

Down Bromley Kent

March 4th

My dear Huxley

You poor Londoners I daresay never see the Gardeners’ Chronicle so I write to say that in to days number, there appears the following.

“We borrow from the Times the following brilliant notice of the work &c &c”

Then comes your whole Article—2 I never knew G. Ch. do such a thing before    see you best of “general agents” what capital service you have done in the good cause of removing prejudice &c.

Yours Most sincerely | C. Darwin

By the way, a fortnight ago Harvey attacked my book in rather weak article, & Hooker made really admirable rejoinder in last week’s number.—3

1
Dated by the reference to the Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette (see n. 2, below).
2
Huxley’s anonymous review of Origin in The Times, 26 December 1859, p. 8, was reprinted in the Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 3 March 1860, pp. 192–3.
3
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 18 February 1860, p. 145, and 25 February 1860, pp. 170–1. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 26 [February 1860].

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

2.1 I never … before] added

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-2720,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-2720