From J. F. McLennan 8 May 1874
61. Bedford Gardens. | Campden Hill. W.
8 May 74
My dear Mr. Darwin,
Many thanks for the Anthropologia of which I have ordered a copy.1 When I get it I shall return you yours.
I shall probably write to you about the papers it contains by & bye.
Meantime as to Mr. Murray, I have neither spoken nor written to any one about my book since I saw him. There is no publisher I shd. more like to have than Mr. Murray if he wd. publish for me; & I shall be exceedingly obliged to you—even if nothing comes of it—if you will write to him in my behalf.—2
I felt moribund a few days ago. Now I am better. The bleeding stopped on Tuesday & Dr. Clark,3 whom I saw today, asks me not to think very much of it.
With kind regards to Mrs. Darwin I am | yrs. sincerely | J. F M’Lennan.
Charles Darwin Esq | &c &c
Footnotes
Bibliography
McLennan, John Ferguson. 1865. Primitive marriage: an inquiry into the origin of the form of capture in marriage ceremonies. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black.
Wake, Charles Staniland. 1873. Marriage among primitive peoples. [Read 2 November 1873.] Anthropologia 1 (1873–5): 197-207.
Summary
Thanks for issue of Anthropologia. Would be pleased if CD would write to Murray on his behalf.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9447
- From
- John Ferguson McLennan
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Campden Hill
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 21
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9447,” accessed on 28 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9447.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22