To John Murray 24 December [1859]
Down Bromley Kent
Dec. 24th
My dear Sir
I return you on the part of my wife her very sincere thanks for your kind present of Mc’Clintock’s work.1 It is beautifully got up & we shall read it with great interest.
I am much obliged about Prof Asa Gray.—
I do not think I shall want 1 dozen copies.— But will you kindly inform me when the Reprint is ready.—2
Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
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.
McClintock, Francis Leopold. 1859. The voyage of the Fox in the Arctic seas: a narrative of the discovery of the fate of Sir John Franklin and his companions. London: John Murray.
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.
Summary
Thanks JM for present of McClintock’s work [Sir Francis Leopold McClintock, The voyage of the "Fox" in the Arctic seas (1859)], which he and his wife look forward to reading.
Asks to be told when reprint [of Origin] is ready.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2597
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Murray
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.24–25)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2597,” accessed on 22 September 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2597.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7
