Will you enlighten him or me, and I will convey the information on?
I had another daughter married yesterday. She was a great pet and it is very hard lines on father and mother. The only consolation is that she has married a right good fellow, John Collier the artist.
Ever yours very faithfully,
T.H. Huxley.
July 19, 1879.
Many thanks for your and Mrs. Baynes' congratulations. I am very well content with my son-in-law, and have almost forgiven him for carrying off one of my pets, which shows a Christian spirit hardly to be expected of me.
South Kensington, July 2, 1880.
My dear Baynes,
I have been thinking over the matter of Instinct, and have come to the conclusion that I dare not undertake anything fresh.
There is an address at Birmingham in the autumn looming large, and ghosts of unfinished work flitter threateningly.