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Has not yet read Huxley’s review of Origin in Westminster Review [Apr 1860].
F. J. Pictet has published an excellent review, though opposed to CD, in Bibliothèque Universelle de Genève [Mar 1860].
Transcription
Down Bromley Kent
Ap. 4th
My dear Sir
I enclose with many thanks the receipt for your Bills.—f2
The Review in Westminster, I have not yet read: it is by Huxley.f3 Prof. Pictet has published an excellent Review, though opposed to me, in the Bibliotheque Univer. of Geneva.f4
My dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
- f1
- Dated by the bills mentioned the letter (see n. 2, below).
- f2
- An entry dated 28 May 1860 in CD’s Account book (Down House MS) records `Murray’s Bill’ for £180. In December 1859 Murray had sent CD a cheque for this amount, due for payment on 27 May 1860, as his share of the profits on the first edition of Origin (Correspondence vol. 7, letter to John Murray, 10 December 1859).
- f3
- [T. H. Huxley] 1860b.
- f4
- Pictet de la Rive 1860.