Ɛpsilon

To John Murray   7 October [1862?]1

Down, Bromley

7 October

My eye has just caught sight of a curious misprint in your announcement of my Book, viz., the good affects of intercussing for intercrossing.2 It might do a man good to swear a little occasionally, but a formal treatise on the good effects of intercussing is a novelty

incomplete

1
The year is conjectured from the date of publication of the first edition of Orchids (see n. 2, below).
2
The announcement has not been traced. The first edition of Orchids was published in May 1862 with the subtitle ‘on the good effects of intercrossing’. The subtitle was not used in the second edition.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-3753A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-3753A