To John Murray 12 October [1860]1
15 Marine Parade | Eastbourne
Oct 12th
My dear Sir
I enclose a draft for the amount of your account with many thanks for all your kindness—2 Please send receipt to above address.—
Sir C. Lyell tells me that he hears that the Origin sells yet pretty well which pleases & surprises me.—3 If ever a new Edit. is called for give me some good notice, as I shall have a good many corrections & an Historical Preface.—4
My dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
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
Lyell tells CD Origin still sells "pretty well", which pleases and surprises him. If a new edition should be called for, he has a good many corrections and a historical preface for it.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2947
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Murray
- Sent from
- Eastbourne
- Source of text
- National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.82–83)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2947,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2947.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8