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To John Murray   20 March [1867]1

Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.

March 20th.

My dear Sir

The new title is fixed.2 Many thanks about the clean sheets. I will not forget about the other german publisher.3 With respect to the number of copies I am in that useful frame of mind that when you propose a small number I wish for more & now that you propose 1500 I am frightened so my opinion goes for nothing.4

My dear Sir | yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

LS

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from John Murray, 19 March [1867].
2
CD refers to Variation; see letter from John Murray, 19 March [1867] and n. 2.
3
Murray had agreed to send extra sets of proof-sheets for the German and Russian translations of Variation, and had reported that another German publisher was interested in bringing out a German translation of Variation (see letter from John Murray, 19 March [1867] and n. 5).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-5450,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-5450