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To a bookseller   9 April [1860]

Down Bromley Kent

Ap. 9th

Dear Sir

Please procure & send me by Post, Mr Pat. Matthew’s work on “Naval Timber & Arboriculture” 1831. Adam Black Edinburgh & Longman London.—1

Dear Sir, | Yours faithfully | C. Darwin

Footnotes

1
CD had become aware of Patrick Matthew’s book (Matthew 1831) after Matthew published a letter in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, 7 April 1860, pp. 312–13, in which he claimed to have published a principle of natural selection before the publication of Origin. See Correspondence vol. 8 and Dempster 1996. There is an annotated copy of Matthew 1831 in the Darwin Library–CUL (see marginalia 1: 571).

Bibliography

Dempster, W. J. 1996. Natural selection and Patrick Matthew. Evolutionary concepts in the nineteenth century. Durham: Pentland Press.

Matthew, Patrick. 1831. On naval timber and arboriculture; with critical notes on authors who have recently treated the subject of planting. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green. Edinburgh: Adam Black.

Summary

Orders a copy of Matthew 1831 from a bookseller.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-2753F
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Bookseller.
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller MS alb-54:068)

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2753F,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2753F.xml

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

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