From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
24 Sept [1861]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 108–109B)
Summary:
Thanks JM for his liberal offer [to publish Orchids]. CD fears the public will not be interested, but thinks it will "do good to the Origin as it will show that I worked hard on details and it will perhaps serve [to] illustrate how Natural History may be worked under the belief of the modification of Species".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project