From John Murray 27 February [1871]1
50, Albemarle St. | W.
Feby 27
My Dear Sir
The first Edition of your new Book is exhausted—2 Pray send me—by bearer if possible, your corrected sheets that I may go to press at once—with a New Edition of at least 1000 copies.
A copy is on its way to Linc Inn Fields—3
Yours Dear Sir very | faithfully | John Murray
Ch. Darwin Esq FRS | &c &c
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. 2d edition. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
Summary
First edition [issue] of Descent is exhausted. Asks CD to send corrections at once for a new printing of at least 1000 copies.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7519
- From
- John Murray
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Albemarle St, 50
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 390
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7519,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7519.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19
