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To a bookseller   6 September [1860]

Down Bromley Kent

Sept. 6

Dear Sir

Will you oblige me by procuring Fraser’s Magazine for July, & send it, or cut out Review on my Origin of Species (according to Postage) & send it to

Prof. Asa Gray

Cambridge

Massachussetts

U. States

Please charge me postage & excuse my asking this favour as Prof. A. Gray wants it immediately1

Dear Sir | In Haste | Yours sincerely | C. Darwin

Footnotes

See Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Asa Gray, 10 September [1860]. The review was Hopkins 1860.

Bibliography

Hopkins, William. 1860. Physical theories of the phenomena of life. Fraser’s Magazine 61: 739–52; 62: 74–90.

Summary

Asks that Fraser’s Magazine for July or the review from it on Origin (Hopkins 1860) be sent to Asa Gray.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-2906F
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Bookseller.
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Bernard Quaritch (dealers) (2003, 2007)

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2906F,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2906F.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18 (Supplement)

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