From Asa Gray [after 17 September 1867]1
Dear Darwin
I have said yes to this reminder of an old promise.—2 But I shd like to have time to turn over the pages & ponder upon them, and perhaps to exchange thoughts with you, before I attempt a review of your opus. 3 By 1st of Oct, we have an inter-national book post, and you could, perhaps, send me sheets somewhat in advance.4
A. Gray
Footnotes
Bibliography
ANB: American national biography. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. and supplement. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999–2002.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
[Gray, Asa.] 1868. [Review of Variation.] Nation 6 (19 March 1868): 234–6.
Kennedy, Jane. 1957. Development of postal rates: 1845–1955. Land Economics 33: 93–112.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
AG has promised to review CD’s new book [Variation] for the Nation [forwards a letter from E. L. Godkin of the Nation to this effect] and wonders if he might have sheets a little in advance.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5636
- From
- Asa Gray
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Postmark
- London OC 12 67
- Source of text
- DAR 165: 158
- Physical description
- ALS 1p, encl ALS 2pp † (by CD)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5636,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5636.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 15