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611 DARWIN, Charles

A. L. s. 4 pp. 8vo

Feb. 16, 1882, to the Hon. John Collier, thanking him for his Art Primer and humorously praising a volume of essays by Huxley: That on automatism is wonderfully interesting, more is the pity say I, for if I were as well armed as Huxley I would challenge him to a duel on this subject.—(But I am a deal too wise to do anything of the kind, for he would run me through the body half-a-dozen times with his sharp & polished rapier, before I knew where I was, etc.