My dear Sir

I am delighted at your news. I return home on Saturday, and on Monday or Tuesday will send you a list of presentation copies for London and vicinity and will have a lot of copies sent to Down for presentation abroad.² I shall want a good many copies how many I do not yet know. I hope Mr. Murray will charge me, as if I were a bookseller purchasing at your sale, and that he will give me some copies as heretofore. I will not transmit any copies to America till the day of your sale. Very many thanks about the Appletons.³

Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

I hope the books will sell fairly well for all our sakes.