From Henry Huxley 17 and 20 January 1872
26 Abbey Place | St John’s Wood
Janry. 17th 1872
Dear Mr Darwin
I have nothing to do, so I am going to write to you. Mamma gave me a beautiful box of bricks and pater has gone to Egypt by sea.1 we have had very bad weather, and on the nineteenth we are going to a circus
20th. Jan. We have just come home from the circus Mr Hughes and Lady Lyell took us there we saw Cinderella acted and there was a nice horse whose name was [Dueroco] and he went round the middle of the room and at the last there were some monkeys riding on ponies.2
With love to you and Mrs. Darwin | I remain | Yours affectionately | Henry Huxley.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Desmond, Adrian. 1994–7. Huxley. 2 vols. London: Michael Joseph.
Summary
His father has gone to Egypt.
Tells of visit to circus.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8162
- From
- Henry Huxley
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- St John’s Wood
- Source of text
- DAR 166: 286
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8162,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8162.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
