From T. H. Huxley 28 September 1869
My dear Darwin
I got back to the mill & received your letter yesterday.—1 (Item the tooth) I will do my best to make out the tooth—though I should tell you before hand that I am not disposed to place much weight upon conclusions that may be based upon a single tooth of a horse
Bad man that you are, you do not say whether you are the better for your trip or not.2
As usual, your abominable heresies were the means of getting me into all sorts of hot water at the Association—
Three parsons set upon you—and if you were the most malicious of men you could not have wished them to have made greater fools of themselves than they did3 They got considerably chaffed & that was all they were worth—
Ever | Yours faithfully | T. H. Huxley
Jermyn S
Sep. 28. 1869
Footnotes
Summary
Will do his best on the tooth [sent by CD] but does not put much weight on conclusions based on a single tooth of a horse.
Darwin attacked by three clergymen at BAAS meeting [Exeter, 1869].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6914
- From
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Jermyn St
- Source of text
- DAR 166: 321
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6914,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6914.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17
