RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1900. [Letters to Huxley and words attributed to Darwin]. In Huxley, Leonard, Life and letters of Thomas Henry Huxley. 2 vols. London.
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Freeman Bibliographical Database, enter its Identifier here. For complete letters with important editorial notes see:
29 September 1855, in Correspondence vol. 5, pp. 441-2.
7 January 1881, in Correspondence vol. 29.
Letters that had already been published before 1900 are not included here.
[page] 129
[Volume 1:]
Great as was his new happiness, he hardly stood in need of Darwin's word of warning: "I hope your marriage will not make you idle; happiness, I fear, is not good for work." […]
[Volume 2:]
[page] 282
[…]
On December 11 he sends Darwin the draft of a memorial on the subject, and on the 28th suggests that the best way of moving the official world would be for Darwin himself to send the memorial, with a note of his own, to Mr. Gladstone, who was then Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury:—
Mr. G. can do a thing gracefully when he is so minded, and unless I greatly mistake, he will be so minded if you write to him.
The result was all that could be hoped. On January 7 [1881] Darwin writes:—
"Hurrah! hurrah! read the enclosed. Was it not extraordinarily kind of Mr. Gladstone to write himself at the present time? . . . I have written to Wallace. He owes much to you. Had it not been for your advice and assistance, I should never have had courage to go on."
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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