To John Murray 13 April [1868]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Ap 13.
My dear Sir
Please to send by post a copy of my new book to
Professor G. Boccardo
Genoa
Italy.2
Please to paste inside the paper sent—
Be so good as to mark outside your name & address in case the postage stamps shd be insufficient.
Dear Sir yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Facts and Arguments For Darwin by Fritz Müller with numerous illustrations, and additions by the author.— Translated from the German, by W. S. Dallas.{Cend}
*S2
Mr Dallas & self have fixed on a title for the opusculus, which you can announce, when you think fit, but please remember that it will not go to press for 3 months; & secondly that I do not want to go to great expence in advertising.—3 The title was suggested by Sir C. Lyell.—4
Footnotes
Bibliography
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Asks JM to send Variation to G. Boccardo in Italy.
Sends title (suggested by Lyell) for translation of Fritz Müller’s Für Darwin (which Dallas is translating). CD does not wish to go to great expense in advertising it.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6114
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Murray
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 184–185)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6114,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6114.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16