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To H. A. Huxley   [before 25 November 1866?]1

6 Queen Anne St | W.

My dear Mrs. Huxley

I want very much to see you & the children & to ask Huxley2 some non-scientific & some scientific questions. Might I call on Sunday & should you think me utterly unreasonable if I proposed to call about 10 oclock, for my strength always oozes away as the day advances.— I would not stay much more than half-an-hour.— If the hour for any cause proves inconvenient could I come between 112 & 2 oclock?

Will you have kindness to send me briefest answer to my request & believe me my dear Mrs. Huxley | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

My movements on any day are not very certain & if I do not come at whatever hour you may fix, you will understand that I am not able from health.

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The date range is suggested by the relationship between this letter and the letter to A. R. Wallace, [23 November 1866?] (Correspondence vol. 14), in which CD also uses the phrase ‘my strength always oozes away as the day advances’. The Darwins were in London from 22 to 29 November 1866; 25 November was a Sunday.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-2797F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-2797F