To John Murray 19 February [1871]1
Down, Beckenham, Kent. S.E.
Feb. 19th.
My dear Sir
Will you have kindness to tell me by return of Post, whether you feel sure that more copies than the 2500 will be printed off.2 I have had one sheet corrected and there are 4 or 5 other sheets with moderate corrections, which I should be glad to have proofs of immediately so that I could send them abroad for some of foreign editions.3
All the other sheets will remain just as they are. I want to do this before I come to London on Thursday next, on which day or on Friday I will call on you.4
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
P.S. The books arrived last night all safe. Many thanks.5
The volumes look admirable; they are excellently got up in paper, printing and binding.
I hope your clerk has remembered to send Vol II to Wallace, Mivart (and Miss Cobbe, 26 Hereford Sqr, for Theological Review)6
P.S. Your note just received. I will, if I possibly can, attend Athenæum and with greatest pleasure Vote for Mr. Cooke; but I cannot often go out late. I will enquire how early Ballot-Box is open.
I have by this Post written to Miss Cobbe about not publishing any Review too soon.7
Footnotes
Bibliography
Cobbe, Frances Power. 1871. Darwinism in morals. Theological Review 8: 167–92.
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
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.
Summary
Discusses publication of Descent. Orders copies of vol. 2 sent to Wallace, Mivart, and F. P. Cobbe.
Will attend Athenaeum and vote for RC.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7489
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Murray
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 143: 280
- Physical description
- C 2pp
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7489,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7489.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19