To Charles Lyell 28 March [1859]
Summary
Has heard that CL has spoken to John Murray about publication [of Origin]. Encloses prospective title-page. Asks whether he ought to tell John Murray about unorthodoxy of the book.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 28 Mar [1859] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.163) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2437 |
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- … 1838 . CD owned copies of the third (1851) and fifth (1855) editions, now in the Darwin Library–CUL. For CD’s previous estimates of the size of his forthcoming volume, see letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1858] . Lyell was writing up the results of his geological tour in Italy made in the summer and autumn of 1858 (see K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 285–315). See letter to John Phillips, …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
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| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
