To John Murray 18 May [1860]1
Down Bromley Kent
May 18th
My dear Sir
I write one line to thank you very sincerely for your too magnificent present of six copies of my Journal.— It looks excellently, & I am greatly pleased at my creditable appearance in a green coat.—2 With very many thanks
My dear Sir | Yours sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
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.
Journal of researches: Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by HMS Beagle, under the command of Captain FitzRoy, RN, from 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Henry Colburn. 1839.
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Summary
Thanks for six copies of Journal of researches [1860 ed.].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2810
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Murray
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Dunedin Public Library (Reed collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2810,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2810.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8