To John Murray 6 March 1868
6 Queen Anne St. | W.
March 6.— 1868
My dear Sir
I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt & thank you for the Bill for £420.1
If I can I will attend the Athenæum & shall have much pleasure in voting for Mr. Clowes & getting him any votes in my power.2
My dear Sir | Yours very faithfully & obliged | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The payment was for the second printing of Variation. See letter from John Murray, 3 March [1868] and n. 2.
Murray had asked for CD’s support in electing William Charles Knight Clowes a member of the Athenaeum Club (see letter from John Murray, 6 March [1868] and n. 3).
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of bill for £420.
Will try to attend Athenaeum meeting to help elect Clowes’s son.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5989
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Murray
- Sent from
- London, Queen Anne St, 6
- Source of text
- National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff. 37–38)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5989,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5989.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
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