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To John Murray   13 April [1868]1

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

Ap 13.

My dear Sir

Please to send by post a copy of my new book to

Professor G. Boccardo

Genoa

Italy.2

Please to paste inside the paper sent—

Be so good as to mark outside your name & address in case the postage stamps shd be insufficient.

Dear Sir yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Facts and Arguments For Darwin by Fritz Müller with numerous illustrations, and additions by the author.— Translated from the German, by W. S. Dallas.{Cend}

*S2

Mr Dallas & self have fixed on a title for the opusculus, which you can announce, when you think fit, but please remember that it will not go to press for 3 months; & secondly that I do not want to go to great expence in advertising.—3 The title was suggested by Sir C. Lyell.—4

LS(A)

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Gerolamo Boccardo, 23 April 1868.
2
An annotation at the top of the letter records that a copy of Variation was sent to Boccardo on 15 April 1868.
3
William Sweetland Dallas finished the translation of Müller’s Für Darwin (F. Müller 1864; W. S. Dallas trans. 1869) in November 1868 (letter from W. S. Dallas, 27 November 1868).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

5.1 Facts … Lyell.— 6.4] in CD’s hand
5.5 illustrations,] comma altered from point
5.5 and … author.— 5.6] added; ‘and’ over ‘—’
5.6 by] after del ‘with [del illeg] additions by the Author,’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-6114,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-6114