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To a bookseller   6 September [1860]

Down Bromley Kent

Sept. 6

Dear Sir

Will you oblige me by procuring Fraser’s Magazine for July, & send it, or cut out Review on my Origin of Species (according to Postage) & send it to

Prof. Asa Gray

Cambridge

Massachussetts

U. States

Please charge me postage & excuse my asking this favour as Prof. A. Gray wants it immediately1

Dear Sir | In Haste | Yours sincerely | C. Darwin

Footnotes

See Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Asa Gray, 10 September [1860]. The review was Hopkins 1860.

Bibliography

Hopkins, William. 1860. Physical theories of the phenomena of life. Fraser’s Magazine 61: 739–52; 62: 74–90.

Summary

Asks that Fraser’s Magazine for July or the review from it on Origin (Hopkins 1860) be sent to Asa Gray.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-2906F
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Bookseller.
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Bernard Quaritch (dealers) (2003, 2007)

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2906F,” accessed on 5 June 2025, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2906F.xml

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

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