To J. D. Hooker 10 February [1868]1
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Feb. 10th
My dear Hooker
What is the good of having a friend, if one may not boast to him? I heard yesterday that Murray has sold in a week the whole edit. of 1500 copies of my book, & the sale so pressing that he has agreed with Clowes to get another edit in 14 days!2 This has done me a world of good for I had got into a sort of dogged hatred of my book. And now there has appeared a review in the Pall Mall which has pleased me excessively, more perhaps than is reasonable.3
I am quite content & do not now care how much I may be pitched into.— If by any chance you shd. hear who wrote the article in the Pall Mall, do please tell me: it is some one who writes capitally & knows the subject.
I went to luncheon on Sunday to Lubbocks,4 partly in hopes of seeing you, & be hanged to you, you were not there.
Your cock-a-hoop Friend | C. D
Footnotes
Bibliography
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Has heard that Variation sold the whole edition of 1500 copies in a week [see 5844]. Has done him a world of good. Pall Mall Gazette has review which pleased him exceedingly [see 5874].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5856
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 94: 50–1
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5856,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5856.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
