From Asa Gray 18 November 1867
Cambridge Mass,
Nov. 18, 1867
My Dear Darwin
I was rejoiced by your favor of Oct. 16, and the sheets of the new book up to p. 336 (sign Y)1 Thus far I have read only dogs & cats 2—but expect soon to have some hours in a rail-way carriage— then, if not before, I shall read it up. I do not care to read it in driblets, bit by bit. But I shall be all ready for the treat you promise me in vol. 2nd,—“semi-theology” and all.3
Thanks for the facts about locusts’ dung,—which I read to Wyman.4 We hope you mean to print it.5
No time to write more now.—
Ever Your | A. Gray
Footnotes
Bibliography
Origin 5th ed.: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. 5th edition, with additions and corrections. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1869.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Is reading sheets of Variation.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5682
- From
- Asa Gray
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Cambridge, Mass.
- Source of text
- DAR 165: 159
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5682,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5682.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 15
