From T. H. Huxley 22 June 1870
Geological Survey of England and Wales
My dear Darwin
I sent the books to Queen Anne St this morning—1 Pray keep them as long as you like, as I am not using them—
I am greatly disgusted that you are coming up to London this week—as we shall be out of Town next Sunday—2 It is the rarest thing in the world for us to be away and you have pitched upon the one day. Cannot we arrange some other day?
I wish you could have gone to Oxford, not for your sake, but for theirs.—3
There seems to have been a tremendous shindy in the Hebdomadal board about certain persons who were proposed; and I am told that Pusey came to London to ascertain from a trustworthy friend who were the blackest heretics out of the list proposed—and that he was glad to assent to your being doctored, when he got back—in order to keep out seven devils worst than that first!4
Ever, oh Coryphæus diabolicus5 | your faithful follower | T. H. Huxley
June 22. 1870
Footnotes
Bibliography
Bischoff, Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm. 1845. Entwicklungsgeschichte des Hunde-Eies. Brunswick: F. Vieweg und sohn.
Browne, Janet. 2002. Charles Darwin. The power of place. Volume II of a biography. London: Pimlico.
Wagner, Rudolph. 1851–9. Icones physiologicae. Erläuterungstafeln zur Physiologie und Entwickelungsgeschichte. 2d edition, revised and edited by Alexander Ecker. Leipzig: Leopold Voss.
Summary
Reports "shindy" at Oxford over persons proposed for doctorate. Pusey assented to CD’s being "doctored" to keep out seven worse devils.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7239
- From
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Geological Survey
- Source of text
- DAR 166: 322
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7239,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7239.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18
