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To John Murray   5 February [1860]1

Down Bromley Kent

Feb. 5th

My dear Sir

Very many thanks about Bailliere & extract (highly flattering) from German Newspaper.—2

If you have not already taken, will you please to take proper steps in Germany for reserving to me power of Translation.—

Shall you have new title-page for my Journal? if so would it not be splendid puff to put in 7th Thousandth, or if Colburn’s Edition of 1500 might be added 8th thousandth3

Yours very truly | C. Darwin

How many copies shall you print? Do not think of answering this on purpose.

1
Dated by the reference to a German edition of Origin.
2
See letter to John Murray, 3 February [1860]. The extract from a German newspaper has not been found.
3
The title page of the 1860 edition of Journal of researches reads ‘Tenth Thousand’.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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Please cite as “DCP-LETT-2688,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-2688