From John Murray   12 April [1871]1

50, Albemarle St. | W.

Ap. 12

My Dear Sir

Will you perpend & pronounce upon Mr Loeschers request?2 I believe he is a pushing German established lately at Turin   I think he ought to have named his Translator—3

Very faithfully yours | John Murray

Have you heard the name of your reviewer in the Times?4 I have not

Ch. Darwin Esqr

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from R. F. Cooke, 26 April 1871 (see n. 2, below).
2
Ermanno Loescher had evidently requested the rights for the Italian translation of Descent (Lessona trans. 1871). No letter from Loescher has been found, but see the letter from R. F. Cooke, 26 April 1871, and the letter from Luigi Pomba, 6 May 1871.
3
Loescher’s translator was Michele Lessona (see letter from Luigi Pomba, 6 May 1871).
4
Murray refers to the anonymous review of Descent in The Times (7 April 1871, p. 3, and 8 April 1871, p. 5).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7676,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7676