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To Williams & Norgate   25 August [1861]1

Aug 25th

Dear Sir

Please to send by Post to Down, Bromley Kent.

‘Du Passe et de l’Avenir des Haras par F. Michel’.2

Also as soon as published ‘The Three Barriers’ published by Blackwood;3 I saw it announced as out—

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the publication date of [Rorison] 1861; see n. 3, below.
2
Michel 1861. CD’s annotated copy is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 241). CD cited the book in Variation 2: 203, 209.
3
The publication of The three barriers ([Rorison] 1861) was announced in Publishers’ Circular, 15 August 1861, p. 374. CD later referred to the book as ‘a theological hash of old abuse of me’ (see Correspondence vol. 9, letter to T. H. Huxley, 31 October [1861] and nn. 2 and 3).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-3235F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-3235F