To Williams & Norgate 25 August [1861]1
Aug 25th
Dear Sir
Please to send by Post to Down, Bromley Kent.
‘Du Passe et de l’Avenir des Haras par F. Michel’.2
Also as soon as published ‘The Three Barriers’ published by Blackwood;3 I saw it announced as out—
Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the publication date of [Rorison] 1861; see n. 3, below.
Michel 1861. CD’s annotated copy is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 241). CD cited the book in Variation 2: 203, 209.
The publication of The three barriers ([Rorison] 1861) was announced in Publishers’ Circular, 15 August 1861, p. 374. CD later referred to the book as ‘a theological hash of old abuse of me’ (see Correspondence vol. 9, letter to T. H. Huxley, 31 October [1861] and nn. 2 and 3).
Summary
Instructions to a book seller.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3235F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Williams & Norgate
- Source of text
- DAR 249: 119
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3235F,” accessed on 21 January 2020, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-3235F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13 (Supplement)
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