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To Williams & Norgate   12 April [1872]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

April 12th

Dear Sir

Please to send me “The Higher Ministry of Nature by J. Leifchild: Hodder & Stoughton.—”2

Also please try & get the enclosed for me.—3

I think that I formerly ordered (do you keep any list? & can you see whether you have already ordered it for me) “A Review of Darwin’s Theory by James Hunter: Appleton & Co. New York.”—4 I am anxious to get this.—

Dear Sir, | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the reference to Leifchild 1872 (see n. 2, below).
2
John Roby Leifchild’s book (Leifchild 1872) was published in March 1872 (Publishers’ circular, 16 March 1872, p. 177). Leifchild was the author of critical reviews of CD’s works in the Athenæum (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Asa Gray, 22 July [1860] and n. 6).
3
The enclosure was an advertisement for an offprint of the article ‘The application of Darwinian theory to flowers and the insects which visit them’ (H. Müller 1871). The article appeared in the July 1871 issue of American Naturalist. CD’s annotated copy is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL.
4
CD refers to an offprint of a review of Descent by James B. Hunter that originally appeared in the Journal of Psychological Medicine (Hunter 1871). CD’s copy of the offprint is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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