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From G. Chiantore   16 June 1875

Società | L’Unione Tip-Editrice | Torinese | già Ditta Pomba e C. | Torino | Via Carlo Alberto, no 33 | Gabinetto del Direttore

Torino, il 16th of June 1875

Honoured Sir,

I think it my duty to thank you for the complaisance you had to inform me that a new Edition of the “Variations under domestication” revised will be published on the beginning of 9ber. next, and that I may have the cliches by Mr. Murray at 10£, payables on delivery.1

I accept gratefully your advise of waiting for the new edition, and the copy you offer so kindly; disposed also to receive the cliches#, at the said price, and pay the same on delivery.

Pray give my respects to Mr. Murray and agree the Salutations of your | most obediant | L Chiantore

# 9ber | next

CD annotations

0.1 Società . . . 33.] double scored ink
1.3 I may . . . Murray] ‘[ ↑ offering] 2d Edition’ ink
Top of letter: ‘(Correct)’; ‘Chiantore’ ink
1
CD’s letter has not been found, but see the letter from G. Chiantore to John Murray, 18 May 1875. Chiantore had asked for clichés (stereotype plates) of the illustrations to Variation. Variation 2d ed. was not published until the second half of February 1876 (Publishers’ circular, 1 March 1876, p. 168); however, it carried an 1875 publication date. The abbreviation ‘9ber’ probably refers to November.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10020A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10020A