364 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. XVIII 



Give my love to your husband. I am glad to hear 

 he wears so well And don't forget to give your children 

 kindly thoughts of their uncle. Dr. Wright gives a great 

 account of my namesake, and says he is the handsomest 

 youngster in the Southern States. That comes of his 

 being named after me, you know how renowned for 

 personal beauty I always was. 



I asked Dr. Wright if you had taken to spectacles, 

 and he seemed to think not. I had a pain about my 

 eyes a few months ago, but I found spectacles made this 

 rather worse and left them off again. However, I do 

 catch myself holding a newspaper further off than I 

 used to do. 



Now don't let six months go by without writing 

 again. If our little venture succeeds this time, we shall 

 send again. 1 Ever, my dearest Lizzie, your affectionate 

 brother, T. H. HUXLEY 



He writes to his wife, who had taken the children 

 to Margate : 



Sept. 22. I am now busy over a paper for the Zool. 

 Soc. ; after that there is one for the Ethnological which 

 was read last session though not written. . . . Don't 

 blaspheme about going into the bye -ways. They are 

 both in the direct road of the book, only over the hills 

 instead of going over the beaten path. 



Oct. 6. I heard from Darwin last night jubilating 

 over an article of mine which is published in the last 

 number of the Nat. Hist. Review, and which he is 

 immensely pleased with. . . . My lectures tire me, from 

 want of practice, I suppose. I shall soon get into swing. 



The article in question was the " Criticisms of the 

 Origin of Species," of which he writes to Darwin : 



1 I.e. a package of various presents to the family. 



