To Williams & Norgate 12 April [1872]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
April 12th
Dear Sir
Please to send me “The Higher Ministry of Nature by J. Leifchild: Hodder & Stoughton.—”2
Also please try & get the enclosed for me.—3
I think that I formerly ordered (do you keep any list? & can you see whether you have already ordered it for me) “A Review of Darwin’s Theory by James Hunter: Appleton & Co. New York.”—4 I am anxious to get this.—
Dear Sir, | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
Hunter, James B. 1871. A review of Darwin’s theory of the origin and development of man. Journal of Psychological Medicine 4: 550–66.
Leifchild, John Roby. 1872. The higher ministry of nature viewed in the light of modern science, and as an aid to advanced Christian philosophy. London: Hodder & Stoughton.
Müller, Hermann. 1871. Application of the Darwinian theory to flowers and the insects which visit them. [Translated into Italian from the German with annotations by Federico Delpino. Translated from the Italian by R. L. Packard.] American Naturalist 5: 271–97.
Summary
Orders books: J. R. Leifchild, The higher ministry of nature (1872);
Hermann Müller, The application of the Darwinian theory to flowers [(1872?), reprint from Am. Nat. 5 (1871): 271–97];
and a review by J. B. Hunter.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8284
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Bookseller.
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.414)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p encl
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8284,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8284.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20