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Darwin Correspondence Project

To John Murray   5 November [1874]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Nov. 5

My dear Sir

I thank you for your extremely kind note & granting of my request so promptly.—2 I will write this evening to Mess. Appleton.—3

I am sorry about Expression book as by your previous note— It is a bad job, but I still think the book will sell in the course of years, though this of course a heavy loss.—4

Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from John Murray, 3 November 1874.
Murray’s note has not been found.

Summary

Thanks JM for granting his request. Will write to D. Appleton.

CD is sorry about heavy loss from Expression; still thinks the book will sell in the course of years.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-9710
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
John Murray
Sent from
Down
Source of text
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 f. 344)
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9710,” accessed on 26 November 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9710.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22

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