To John Murray 6 March 1868

6 Queen Anne St. | W.

March 6.— 1868

My dear Sir

I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt & thank you for the Bill for ^£420.¹

If I can I will attend the Athenæum & shall have much pleasure in voting for M^r. Clowes & getting him any votes in my power.²

My dear Sir | Yours very faithfully & obliged | Ch. Darwin

The payment was for the second printing of Variation. See letter from John Murray, 3 March [1868] and n. 2.

Murray had asked for CD’s support in electing William Charles Knight Clowes a member of the Athenaeum Club (see letter from John Murray, 6 March [1868] and n. 3).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-5989,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-5989

Summary

Acknowledges receipt of bill for £420.

Will try to attend Athenaeum meeting to help elect Clowes’s son.

Record number: DCP-LETT-5989
From: Charles Robert Darwin
To: John Murray
Date: 6 Mar 1868
Sent from: London, Queen Anne St, 6
Source of text: National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff. 37–38)
Physical description: 1p

Darwin Correspondence Project[View Ɛpsilon collection]

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16.