From John Murray 18 September [1869]
Summary
JM is about to start a new monthly literary review [the Academy]. Would like to publish in first number a short notice of the new work upon which CD is engaged [Descent].
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Sept [1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 371 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6897 |
To John Murray [after 18 September 1869]
Summary
Wishes JM’s new periodical [the Academy] could have been a weekly so it might kill the Athenæum by a lingering death.
Has drafted a piece [about Descent] but is not pleased with it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | [after 18 Sept 1869] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42153 ff. 39–40) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6900 |
From Walter Elliot 7 September 1869
Summary
Sends excerpt on polygamous breeding habits of Asiatic elephants by Lieut. Johnstone [Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (1868): 128]. [See Descent 1: 268.]
| Author: | Walter Elliot |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Sept 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A74 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6880 |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Elliot, Walter | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Elliot, Walter | (1) |
