To John Murray 18 [June 1862]1
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My dear Sir
I wish much for an answer about the Woodcuts. I am very sorry to be so troublesome.— Ask one of your clerks to answer me.—2
Yours very sincerely | in great Haste | C. Darwin
There is a superb, but I fear exaggerated, Review in “London Review”.3 But I have not been a fool, as I thought I was, to publish; for Asa Gray, about the most competent judge in world, thinks almost as highly of book as does London Review.—4
The Athenæum will hinder sale greatly.—5
Footnotes
Bibliography
[Berkeley, Miles Joseph.] 1862. Fertilization of orchids. London Review and Weekly Journal of Politics, Arts and Sciences 4: 553–4.
Orchids: On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862.
Summary
Superb, but exaggerated, review [of Orchids, by M. J. Berkeley] in London Review [& wkly J. Polit. 4 (1862): 553–4]. Asa Gray thinks almost as highly. "I have not been a fool, as I thought I was, to publish." The Athenæum review will hinder sales greatly.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3609
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Murray
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 123)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3609,” accessed on 21 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3609.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10
