To Roderick Impey Murchison   1 May [1860]1

Down Bromley Kent

May 1st

Dear Sir Roderick Murchison

I am much obliged for your kind note & for forwarding to me Count Keyserling’s note2— I am pleased by it, for I look at any good geologist & palæontologist going one inch with me as more important than a naturalist going two or three inches.—

Pray believe me | Yours sincerely | Charles Darwin

Copy (photocopy)

1
The year is given by the reference to Alexandr Andreevich Keyserling (see n. 2, below).
2
CD had sent the Russian palaeontologist Keyserling a presentation copy of Origin (see Correspondence vol.8, Appendix III and Correspondence vol. 7, letter to T. H. Huxley, 15 October [1859]). Keyserling and Murchison had travelled through Russia together in 1844. For Keyserling’s views concerning CD’s theory, see the letter to Charles Lyell, 4 May [1860].

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-2779,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-2779