To John Murray 22 [November 1860]1
Down Bromley Kent
22d
My dear Mr Murray
Thank you for your note. You do not say that you can send a copy of sheets of Origin for corrections: if you have not please get 2d-hand copy from Mudie2 & send me & charge to me.—3
I hate troubling you to write, so please ask one of your Clerks to write & tell me how soon you wish me to begin to send proofs to Printers, as I have about 10 days or fortnight’s work, which I should much like to get finished before I begin.—4
All my corrections I conjecture would not take above 3 weeks & I Could send some sheets to Printers after I have done half.— But what will be longest job will be to glance over all the endless Reviews to guide me in my corrections—
Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
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
Asks how soon he must send proofs [of Origin, 3d ed.] to printer. His corrections would not take more than three weeks. The longest job will be to glance over the endless reviews to guide him in his corrections.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3029
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Murray
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 72–73)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3029,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3029.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8