To John Murray 9 April [1860]
Down Bromley Kent
Ap. 9th
My dear Sir
Will you be so good as to send a copy of the Origin addressed as follows, marked from Author
Prof. Kölliker1 &c &c care of Prof. Huxley Museum of Geology Jermyn Str—
Have you seen the Edinburgh Review?2 I am thrashed in every possible way to the full content of my bitterest opposers. The article is very venemous, & is manifestly by Owen. I wish for auld lang syne’s sake he had been a little less bitter.—
My dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
Sedgwick has been very fierce in the Spectator; but his blows are fair & open.3 There is some misrepresentation, but no doubt unintentional. Upon the whole I have as yet escaped pretty well.—
Please also to send a copy of Origin to Messrs Williams & Norgate, with enclosed memorandum.—4 Marking copy “from Author”
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
[Sedgwick, Adam.] 1860. Objections to Mr Darwin’s theory of the origin of species. Spectator, 24 March 1860, pp. 285–6. [Reprinted with revisions in ibid., 7 April 1860, pp. 334–5.]
Summary
Asks that a copy of Origin [1860] be sent to R. A. von Kölliker.
A venomous review "manifestly by Owen" has appeared in Edinburgh Review.
Sedgwick has been fierce in Spectator, but fair and open.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2752
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Murray
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.90–91)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2752,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2752.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8