From John Murray   17 November 1869

50, Albemarle St. | W.

Novr 17— 1869.—

My Dear Sir

I have attended to the requests of your note of Monday1

At my annual sale last week I disposed of copies of your work

Fritz Muller 8 out of 545
Variations 18 — 300
Origin 311 — 1530 —

wch. I hope you will consider not a bad days work—2

You have my best wishes for the putting down of your Parisian Blaspheemers3

My Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | John Murray

Chas Darwin Esqre. | &c &c &c

CD annotations

2.2 545] ‘587’ right margin ink
2.4 1530] ‘311/1219’ interl ink
1
The Monday before 17 1869 November was 15 November. No letter to Murray of 15 November 1869 has been found.
2
The references are to William Sweetland Dallas’s translation of F. Müller 1864a (Dallas trans. 1869), Variation, and the fifth edition of Origin.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-6992,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-6992