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To John Murray   17 November [1870]1

Down. | Beckenham | Kent. S.E.

Nov. 17th

My dear Sir

I am much pleased at your sale. I suggest, though suggestions to you on such a point are superfluous, that 3000 copies be printed.2 With my distribution & copies & for Review & Libraries, not much more than 500 will now be left on hand.3

I fear I shall not have done correcting till end of year; the corrections are frightful & I think I must have another week’s rest

Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from John Murray, 16 November [1870].
2
See letter from John Murray, 16 November [1870]. Murray had proposed to print 2500 copies of Descent (letter from John Murray, 28 September [1870]). In February 1871, 2500 copies were printed, with a second issue of 2000 in March (R. B. Freeman 1977, p. 129).
3
There are eighty names on CD’s presentation list for Descent (see DAR 210.11: 32 and Correspondence vol. 19, Appendix IV).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 Beckenham] before del ‘Bromley.’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7374,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7374