To John Murray 4 December [1859]
Ilkley Wells ⇒ Any future letter to be addressed “Down Bromley Kent”
Dec. 4th
My dear Sir
I am very much obliged for your note & all the trouble you have so kindly taken about French Edition.—1 I have written to Mad. Belloc.2
I return papers signed & witnessed.
I quite agree to all you say. & do not care for extra copies of Kingsley’s sentence.3
I am very glad of 3000 copies, but you must not run risk for my sake. I will not delay Printers.— I write briefly to save your time.—
Yours truly obliged | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks JM for trouble taken with French edition [of Journal of researches].
Is glad 3000 copies of 2d ed. [of Origin] will be printed.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2570
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Murray
- Sent from
- Ilkley
- Source of text
- National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f.47)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2570,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2570.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7
