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To ?   25 [April 1860?]1

Down.

25

My dear Sir

One line to say that Mr Laugel has sent me a copy of the Revue des Deux Mondes.2

Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin

Footnotes

The date is suggested by the reference to Laugel 1860 and by the relationship to the preceding letter. The letter is bound into a copy of the first edition of Origin.
There is a copy of Antoine Auguste Laugel’s review of Origin (Laugel 1860) in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. It is lightly annotated.

Bibliography

Laugel, Antoine Auguste. 1860. Nouvelle théorie d’histoire naturelle. L’origine des espèces. Revue des deux mondes 2d ser. 26: 644–71.

Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.

Summary

August Laugel has sent him a copy of his review [of Origin] in Revue des Deux-Mondes [26 (1860): 644–71].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-2768
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Unidentified
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Quaritch (dealers) (July 1977)
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2768,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2768.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8

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