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To John Murray   14 February [1872]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Feb 14

My dear Sir

I hope you will send a copy of Origin to the Pall Mall Gazette, as I hear that they intend reviewing it together with Mivart’s Genesis, at some considerable length;2 but I do not know who the reviewer is, or whether it is to be favourable or hostile—

Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from W. W. Reade, 13 February 1872.
2
William Winwood Reade had informed CD that Origin 6th ed. and St George Jackson Mivart’s On the genesis of species (Mivart 1871a) were going to be reviewed in the Pall Mall Gazette (see letter from W. W. Reade, 13 February 1872 and n. 5).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8212,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8212