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DCP-LETT-13829

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mathias Mull
Date:
[after 24 Nov 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 424a
Summary:

Thanks MM for reference to Shakespeare’s eleventh sonnet.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2546

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
24 [Nov 1859]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.177)
Summary:

Mentions reactions to Origin. It will "horrify and disgust" TCE.

Some authorities approve more than CD expected.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2547

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
24 [Nov 1859]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.178)
Summary:

Sales of Origin.

Discusses revisions for second edition. Mentions possible French translation.

Views of Quatrefages [de Bréau].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2549

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
24 Nov [1859]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.70–71)
Summary:

CD is astonished at sale of Origin [to booksellers].

Arranges to start new edition immediately. Cannot change much [while at Ilkley Wells], nor work rapidly because of health. Relieved that JM has no cause to repent of publishing Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2550

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
24 [Nov 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 4 (EH 88205939)
Summary:

Murray has sold out Origin; wants a new edition immediately.

Asks THH to check whether Geoffroy de St Hilaire is correct [form of name].

Would be grateful for THH’s impressions on the truth of natural selection.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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