To John Murray 10 September [1861]
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Sept. 10th
My dear Sir
Will you be so good as to send off immediately by Post, if possibl be so good as to send off immediately by Post, if possible, or by quickest channel, a copy of last Edit. of Origin to
Madelle. Clemence Auguste Royer 2. Place de la Madeline Lausanne Switzerland
As she has agreed with a Publisher for a French Translation.—1
My Book seems exciting much attention in Germany, judging from the number of discussions sent me.2 To my surprise a Dutch Translation was sent me lately.—3
I have never seen an advertisement of the new Edition, which seems to me a great pity as it was certainly considerably improved. I hope that the B. of Oxford & Co. have not made you sorry that you published it. I have sometimes thought that this might be the case.
My dear Sir | Yours sincerely | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. 2d edition. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
Harvey, Joy. 1987. “Strangers to each other”: male and female relationships in the life and work of Clémence Royer. In Uneasy careers and intimate lives: women in science 1789–1979, edited by Pnina G. Abir-Am and Dorinda Outram. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press. [Vols. 9,10]
Köstlin, Otto. 1860. Ueber die Unverändlichkeit der organischen Species. Stuttgart.
Meding, Karl Heinrich. 1861. Goethe als Naturforscher in Beziehung zur Gegenwart. Dresden: in Commission bei Adler und Dietze.
Montgomery, William M. 1974. Germany. In The comparative reception of Darwinism, edited by Thomas F. Glick. Austin, Tex., and London: University of Texas Press.
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Pelzeln, August von. 1861. Bemerkungen gegen Darwin’s Theorie vom Ursprung der Spezies. Vienna: A. Pichler Witwe & Sohn. [Vols. 9,11]
Summary
Asks that a copy of Origin [3d ed.] be sent to Mlle Clémence-Auguste Royer; she has arranged with a publisher for a French translation.
Origin is exciting much attention in Germany.
Surprised to receive a Dutch translation.
Has never seen an advertisement [of 3d ed.], which is a pity. Hopes "Bishop of Oxford & Co." have not made JM sorry he published it.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3250
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Murray
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 104–105)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3250,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3250.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 9
