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From T. H. Huxley   [13 November 1873]1

4 Marlborough Place | NW

Thursday P.M

My dear Darwin

Your note has just come to hand—

I am bound to be at South Kensington at 10. AM tomorrow, when I lecture so I don’t see how it is possible for us to meet at 9.

At 12. there is a Meeting of the Royal Commission which I must attend2   I suppose we shall sit till four o’clock—but I can make sure of being able to call upon you about five

Send me a post card to 6 Old Palace Yard Westminster— (Office of Science Commission) to say if you can see me at this time—

I am very glad you have heard of Dohrn’s affair—3 I have been in a great state of mind about it, but did not know what to do thinking that you for me, had done enough for your friends of late.—4

Ever | yours faithfully | T. H. Huxley

1
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to G. H. Darwin, 15 November [1873]. In 1873, the Thursday before 15 November was 13 November.
2
Huxley attended a meeting of the Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction and the Advancement of Science at 6 Old Palace Yard on 14 November 1873 (The Times, 15 November 1873, p. 6).
3
See letter from F. M. Balfour, 11 November 1873, and letter to G. H. Darwin, 15 November [1873]. Anton Dohrn was appealing for funds for the Zoological Station in Naples, which he had founded.
4
In April 1873, CD organised a subscription fund raised by Huxley’s personal friends to relieve his financial problems (see letter to subscribers to T. H. Huxley’s gift, [25 April 1873] and nn. 2–4).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9183,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9183