Ever yours,
T.H. Huxley.
4 Marlborough Place, N.W., January 20, 1886.
My dear Knowles,
Here is the debonnaire animal finally titivated, and I quite agree, much improved, though I mourn the loss of some of the spice. But it is an awful smash as it stands—worse than the first, I think.
I shall send you the manuscript of the "Evolution of Theology" to-day or to-morrow. It will not do to divide it, as I want the reader to have an apercu of the whole process from Samuel of Israel to Sammy of Oxford.
I am afraid it will make thirty or thirty-five pages, but it is really very interesting, though I say it as shouldn't.
Please have it set up in slip, though, as it is written after the manner of a judge's charge, the corrections will not be so extensive, nor the strength of language so well calculated to make a judicious editor's hair stand on end, as was the case with the enclosed (in its unregenerate state).
Ever yours very truly,
T.H. Huxley.