To ? 4 May [1873]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
May 4th
Dear Sir
My publisher announced my book “on the evil effects of Interbreeding &c” without my knowledge, & quite prematurely.2 It will not be published for a year or longer time.3 Whenever it is, I shall have much pleasure in sending you a copy.
Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Cross and self fertilisation: The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1876.
Summary
Explains that his publisher has erred in announcing his book [Cross and self-fertilisation] prematurely. [See 8890 and 8897.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8897A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Remember When Auctions (dealers) (Catalogue 41, 16 March 1997)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8897A,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8897A.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21
