From John Murray 18 September [1869]1
50A, Albemarle St. | W.
Sept. 18
Dear Mr Darwin
The enclosed paper will show that I am about to start a new Monthly Literary Review to convey early & trustworthy intelligence to English Readers on Literature Science & Art & to establish, if possible, a higher tone of Criticism than that now prevailing—2
I shd like very much to announce among my Literary News in the 1st number, a short notice of the New Work upon wch you are now engaged.3 Will you kindly draw up a short account of it for me? The first number will be circulated far & wide & I shall send out many thousand copies—so that this at least will be a favorable mode of advertising— It need not commit you at all as to the time of publication, or of going to press even. I hope to be able to announce at the same time Mr Grotes Aristotle—4
I hope you have recovered from the accident wch I was sorry to hear had befallen you5
I am My Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | John Murray
Charles Darwin Esq
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
Grote, George. 1872. Aristotle. 2 vols. Edited by Alexander Bain and G. Croom Robertson. London: John Murray.
North, John S. 1997. The Waterloo directory of English newspapers and periodicals, 1800–1900. 10 vols. Waterloo, Ontario: North Waterloo Academic Press.
Summary
JM is about to start a new monthly literary review [the Academy]. Would like to publish in first number a short notice of the new work upon which CD is engaged [Descent].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6897
- From
- John Murray
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Albemarle St, 50a
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 371
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6897,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6897.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17
