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DCP-LETT-12625

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
9 June 1880
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 368–9)
Summary:

Asks JM to provide Quarterly Journal of Science with five woodcuts from Climbing plants to illustrate an article, based on that work, by Francis Darwin [see 12462].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12628F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
11 June 1880
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:

Asks John Murray to allow R. F. Charles to quote Journal of researches passages in a school text-book [Relfe Brothers model reading-books … in prose and verse (1880–3)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9491

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
13 June [1880]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42153 ff. 60–1)
Summary:

Letter of introduction for R. B. Litchfield.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12651

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
10 July 1880
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 370–1)
Summary:

Asks advice on size of printing for Movement in plants. Expects it to sell a few copies for some years. Asks price of paper and of printing of 250 copies. Sends instructions for the index.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13632

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
21 Jan 1882
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42153 ff. 51–52)
Summary:

Thanks JM for copy of Quarterly Review, with article on his worm book [Henry Wace, "Darwin on earthworms", Q. Rev. 153 (1882): 179–202].

Writer will change his mind on evolution. CD cannot think of any young worker in biology who is not convinced of the truth of evolution, though many believe that natural selection has not done much.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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