To A. W. Bennett 17 July [1875]1
Down. | Beckenham Kent. &c.
July 17th.
My dear Sir.
I must thank you very sincerely, whether or not the proceeding is a proper one on my part, for your magnificent Review in Nature—2 I shall be amply rewarded if my book deserves less than half of what your kind sympathy has led you to say.—
I did not answer your card, for I receive so many letters I hardly can answer them; one of my sons also detected the stupid blunder, which is corrected in the later copies.3
I heard today that 2250 Copies have been sold; I advised Mr Murray very badly for I told him if 1250 were printed these would last for all eternity—4
Yours sincerely & obliged. | Ch Darwin.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Summary
Thanks AWB for review in Nature [probably review of Insectivorous plants, 12 (1875): 206–9, 228–31].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10074
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Alfred William Bennett
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 143: 86
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10074,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10074.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23