To John Murray 4 May [1873]1
Down, Beckenham, Kent
May 4th
My dear Mr. Murray
I beg you not to announce again my book “on the Evil effects of Interbreeding &c,” for Heaven knows when it will be ready.2 The announcement took me quite by surprise. I am already plagued by foreign Translators, Reviewers, &c.
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the reference to the ‘Evil effects of Interbreeding’; CD began work on the topic on 3 February 1873 (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)) and Murray announced the work in April 1873 (see letter to ?, 4 May [1873] and n. 2).
See letter to ?, 4 May [1873] and n. 2. CD’s work was published in 1876 as Cross and self fertilisation.
Bibliography
Cross and self fertilisation: The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1876.
Summary
Asks Murray not to announce Cross and self-fertilisation.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8897
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Murray
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 143: 436
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8897,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8897.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21
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