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To John Murray   9 April [1860]

Down Bromley Kent

Ap. 9th

My dear Sir

Will you be so good as to send a copy of the Origin addressed as follows, marked from Author

Prof. Kölliker1 &c &c care of Prof. Huxley Museum of Geology Jermyn Str—

Have you seen the Edinburgh Review?2 I am thrashed in every possible way to the full content of my bitterest opposers. The article is very venemous, & is manifestly by Owen. I wish for auld lang syne’s sake he had been a little less bitter.—

My dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin

Sedgwick has been very fierce in the Spectator; but his blows are fair & open.3 There is some misrepresentation, but no doubt unintentional. Upon the whole I have as yet escaped pretty well.—

Please also to send a copy of Origin to Messrs Williams & Norgate, with enclosed memorandum.—4 Marking copy “from Author”

John Murray (publishers)

Endorsement: ‘April 9 1860’

1
CD had asked Thomas Henry Huxley to write to Rudolf Albert von Kölliker inquiring about a possible German translation of Origin. See Correspondence vol. 7, letter to T. H. Huxley, [9 December 1859], and this vol., letter to T. H. Huxley, 4 February [1860].
2
[R. Owen] 1860a.
3
[Sedgwick] 1860.
4
The memorandum has not been found, but was a request to the booksellers and publishers Williams and Norgate to send a presentation copy of Origin to Justus von Liebig (see letter to Williams & Norgate, 10 April [1860]. See Correspondence vol. 7, letter to J. D. Hooker, [27 October or 3 November 1859].

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.1 marked from Author 1.2] added
4.2 Upon] over illeg
4.3 well.—-] before del ‘as yet.—-’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-2752,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-2752