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To John Murray   11 October [1870]1

Down. | Beckenham | Kent. S.E.

Oct 11th

My dear Sir

I am very much obliged for your note; & I am glad to hear about Mr Dallas, but he will want keeping up to the mark.2

I shall be pleased to have a dutch edition of my book, so pray send clean sheets & supply stereotypes of the cuts. But you must inform the publisher that we cannot supply stereotypes of 14 figures from Brehm of which I enclose a list.3 Could you get any payment to me from the dutch gentleman?

My dear Sir, | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

I am so knocked up that I am going to have a week’s rest from correcting.4

LS(A)

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from John Murray, 10 October [1870].
2
The references are to the letter from John Murray, 10 October [1870], and to William Sweetland Dallas, who had taken longer than expected to complete the index for Variation (see Correspondence vols. 15 and 16).
3
On the Dutch edition of Descent, and its publisher, see the letter from John Murray, 10 October [1870] and n. 6. CD’s enclosed list of woodcuts from Brehm et al. 1864–9 has not been found, but for its probable contents, see Correspondence vol. 16, letter to Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 31 December 1868 and n. 1.
4
CD left Down from 13 to 20 October (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

3.1 Ch. Darwin … correcting.] in CD’s hand

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7341,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7341