To John Murray 14 April [1865]1
Down Bromley Kent
Ap. 14th
My dear Sir
Many thanks for the advertisement.— I am much pleased that you are content with the title.—2
Yours sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter, the letter from John Murray, 1 April 1865, and the letter to John Murray, 4 April [1865] (Correspondence vol. 13).
Murray advertised CD’s forthcoming book, Variation, in the Reader, 15 April 1865, p. 427. The notice is under the heading ‘Mr. Murray’s quarterly list of works in the press’, and the title given is ‘Domesticated Animals and Cultivated Plants, or the Principles of Variation, Inheritance, Re-union, Crossing, Interbreeding, and Selection under Domestication’. The word ‘re-union’ was a misprint for ‘reversion’ (see Correspondence vol. 13, letter to John Murray, 2 June [1865]). Variation was not published until 1868.
Summary
Thanks for advertisement, and pleased Murray likes title (of Variation).
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4813F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Murray
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- John Wilson (dealer) (2005, item 20910)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4813F,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4813F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18 (Supplement)
letter
