To John Murray   24 December [1859]

Down Bromley Kent

Dec. 24th

My dear Sir

I return you on the part of my wife her very sincere thanks for your kind present of Mc’Clintock’s work.1 It is beautifully got up & we shall read it with great interest.

I am much obliged about Prof Asa Gray.—

I do not think I shall want 112 dozen copies.— But will you kindly inform me when the Reprint is ready.—2

Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin

1
Francis Leopold McClintock, captain of an expedition in search of John Franklin, had returned in 1859 with conclusive proof of Franklin’s death and the fate of the party. The voyage was described in McClintock 1859, a work published by Murray.
2
CD refers to the second edition of Origin, published on 7 January 1860 (Freeman 1977, p. 78). According to Murray’s accounts, CD was given eighteen free copies (Peckham ed. 1959, p. 776).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-2597,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-2597