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From T. H. Huxley   16 April 1874

4 Marlborough Place | NW

April 16 1874

My dear Darwin—

Put my contribution into the smallest type admissible for it will be read by none but anatomists; and never mind where it goes—1

I am glad you agree with me about the hand & foot and skull question2 As Ward said of Mills opinions—you can only account for the view of Messrs. Aeby Lucae & Co on the supposition of “grave personal sin’ on his part—3

I had a letter from Dohrn a day or two ago in which he tells me he has written to you4

I suspect he has been very ill—

Let us know when you are in Town | & believe me | Ever Yours very faithfully | T. H. Huxley

2
CD’s letter to Huxley has not been found; see, however, the letter from T. H. Huxley, 14 April 1874 and n. 2. There is no discussion of the hands and feet of humans and apes in Huxley’s note in Descent 2d ed., pp. 199–206.
3
Huxley refers to Christian Aeby and Johann Lucae (see letter from T. H. Huxley, 14 April 1874 and n. 2), and quotes William George Ward’s remark that John Stuart Mill’s irreligion was ‘due to grave personal sin on his part’ (Ward 1874, p. 9).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9413,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9413