To John Murray 4 April [1865]1
Down, Bromley, Kent. S.E.
Ap. 4.
My dear Sir
I am much obliged for your kind note.2 I will act on your advice and instructions about the wood-cuts. I am quite willing that you should insert the advertisement as you propose, and I presume that you approve of the title. But I must beg you to bear in mind that my health is extremely precarious and that it depends upon this and upon nothing else whether my book will be ready for the press in the autumn.3 On your return I will send you a bundle of MS to look at, and you can be still free to publish or not as you like; but I shall be much pleased if we can agree to publish together.
Believe me my dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. 2d edition. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Discusses proposed publication of Variation.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3494
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Murray
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 143: 434
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3494,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3494.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13
