To John Murray   29 September [1870]¹

My dear Sir

Many thanks for all your assistance & for the cheque for 10^£"10^{s .} 9^d2

I did not promise M^ess. Appleton stereotypes of text, only of cuts.—³ If you could manage to let me hear (& you will have hereafter to determine) what to charge for the 62 cliches, I sh^d like to hear soon & inform my correspondents, so that there may no disappointment hereafter.—

I sh^d. be particularly glad to hear what passage you thought coarse: I cannot remember any except a quotation from Hunter about the female requiring to be courted “to give her desires” or some such words.⁴ I somehow fancied that a quotation rendered the sentence less coarse; I felt it was so, & I hope it is almost the only one. How to alter it I do not yet see; but please, if you can, inform me which sentence it is that you object to

My dear Sir | Your’s very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

To | J Murray Esqre