To John Murray 26 [December 1859]

Down Bromley Kent

26^th

My dear Sir

I have this day run my eye over last proof of the new Edition & returned it to M^essrs Clowes— So that nothing but printing off & binding remains.—

I suppose that you have remembered the Plate or Diagram: it would be well to give caution about the copies being printed clearly.

Yours sincerely | C. Darwin

Please remember the remaining clean sheets to “Prof. Asa Gray, Cambridge, Massachussetts U.S.—”¹

See letters to Asa Gray, 24 December [1859], and to John Murray, 22 December [1859] and 24 December [1859].

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-2607,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-2607

Summary

Has sent off last proof of 2d ed. of Origin. Assumes JM has remembered the diagram. Asks that remaining clean sheets be sent to Asa Gray.

Record number: DCP-LETT-2607
From: Charles Robert Darwin
To: John Murray
Date: 26 [Dec 1859]
Sent from: Down
Source of text: National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.48–48A)
Physical description: 1p

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7.