To John Murray 14 February [1872]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Feb 14
My dear Sir
I hope you will send a copy of Origin to the Pall Mall Gazette, as I hear that they intend reviewing it together with Mivart’s Genesis, at some considerable length;2 but I do not know who the reviewer is, or whether it is to be favourable or hostile—
Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Origin 6th ed.: The origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. 6th edition, with additions and corrections. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
Summary
Asks to have copy of Origin [6th ed.] sent to the Pall Mall Gazette for review with Mivart’s Genesis [of species (1871)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8212
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Murray
- Sent from
- London, Devonshire St, 9 Down letterhead
- Source of text
- Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (11 December 2007)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8212,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8212.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
