From T. H. Huxley   [before 14 December 1860]1

P.S. I have just received your note & the inclosure from Asa Gray—2 How can you imagine there can be a doubt about the reply? Of course I shall be exceedingly glad to have it if it is good—   I wish to see articles both for & against, so as to have it clearly understood that the Review is a ‘Champ libre’—3

Paying for it however is what I unfortunately do not see my way to at present— Until the circulation reaches 6 or 7 hundred we shall hardly be able to pay anything & even then I am afraid not much—   But get us the article if you can & if your friend is the most rabid advocate you ever had so long as he argues the question scientifically & is’n’t abusive (beyond reason) I am quite sure Busk will agree with me on the propriety of inserting it4

My desire to have an anti-Darwinian article—is not so much because I want to see you criticised & because I want all the world to understand that it is not a party journal.

I return A. Grays note. Will he write for us?

AL incomplete

1
Dated by the relationship to the following letter. CD forwarded the postscript to Asa Gray.
3
Huxley was one of the editors of the new series of the Natural History Review.
4
George Busk, a close friend of Huxley’s, was also one of the editors of the Natural History Review.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-3022,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-3022