T.H. Huxley.
[Later on, the pressure of work again forbade him to undertake further articles on "Harvey," "Hunter," and "Instinct.">[
I am sorry to say that my hands are full, and I have sworn by as many gods as Hume has left me, to undertake nothing more for a long while beyond what I am already pledged to do, a small book anent Harvey being one of these things.
[And on June 9:—]
After nine days' meditation (directed exclusively to the Harvey and Hunter question) I am not any "forrarder," as the farmer said after his third bottle of Gladstone claret. So perhaps I had better mention the fact. I am very glad you have limed Flower for "Mammalia" and "Horse"—nobody could be better.
4 Marlborough Place, N.W., July 1, 1879.
My dear Baynes,
On Thursday last I sought for you at the Athenaeum in the middle of the day, and told them to let me know if you came in the evening when I was there again. But I doubt not you were plunged in dissipation.
My demonstrator Parker showed me to-day a letter he had received from Black's, asking him to do anything in the small Zoology way between H and L.
He is a modest man, and so didn't ask what the H—L he was to do, but he looked it.