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To Williams & Norgate   18 May [1860]

Down Bromley Kent

May 18th

Dear Sir

Please order “Ungers Versuch einer Geschichte der Pflanzen-Welt”— (Wien.)1

Dr Asa Gray in writing letter dated May 4th. from U. States says he has read a review of my work the “Origin of Species” in the “British & Foreign Medical Review”. Do you know whether this is different from the Medical & Chirurgical Review which you procured & sent for me to my Brothers.—2 If it be different, & you can find out for me in which month there was a Review of my work, please procure copy, & send it to 6 (formerly 57) Queen Anne St.—3

Pray excuse this trouble & believe me | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | C. Darwin

Endorsement: ‘1860’

1
Unger 1852 appears on CD’s list of Books to be read, 1852–60 (Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix 4, DAR *128: 182).
2
Asa Gray’s letter has not been found, but see Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Asa Gray, 22 May [1860]. No letter from CD requesting the Medical and Chirurgical Review has been found, and no reply from Williams & Norgate to this letter, but see Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 22 May [1860]. The review in question was [Carpenter] 1860 in the British and Foreign Medical-Chirurgical Review.
3
In spring 1860, house numbers in Queen Anne Street, London, were changed (see Post Office London directory 1861).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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Please cite as “DCP-LETT-2810F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-2810F