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To John Tyndall   18 April [1873]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

April 18th

My dear Tyndall

I write a line to say that the total amounts to 1955£, Lubbock having given 200£. This will be paid in tomorrow & I will write tomorrow. Huxley does not return till Saturday or Monday night.— I tremble about his answer.—2 When I definitely hear, I will send a “private Circular” to the 18 subscribers, telling the total amount sent with no other details, & answer, either in extenso or in abstract, according to its nature. Whatever H. may think (& I quite agree with what you say in your note), it is a pleasure to think what a relief it will be to Mrs. H.3

My dear Tyndall | Ever yours most truly | Ch Darwin

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from John Tyndall, 16 April 1873.
2
See letter from John Tyndall, 16 April 1873 and n. 2. John Lubbock’s bank, Robarts, Lubbock & Co., was handling the money raised for the subscription for Thomas Henry Huxley. See also letter to T. H. Huxley, 23 April 1873. Huxley was in Aberdeen (letter from T. H. Huxley to Michael Foster, 22 April 1873 (Dawson 1946, p. 51, no. 61)).
3
CD evidently worried about how to present the news to Huxley that a group of friends had raised money for him. Huxley’s wife was Henrietta Anne Huxley. See also letter to subscribers to T. H. Huxley’s gift, [25 April 1873].

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.00 with … details,] interl
1.00 answer,] after del ‘wd.’
1.00 abstract] above del ‘full’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8867,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8867