From John Murray   12 August 1874

50 Albemarle Street

August. 12. (1874

My dear Sir,

I regret to hear of your complaint against a paper in the last number of the Quarterly.1 I have lost no time in seeing the Editor upon the subject who considering the matter has no hesitation in agreeing to your request to print your Son’s letter as it stands in the next number of the Review & in the same type2

I am Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | (signed John Murray

C. Darwin Esq

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1
See letter to John Murray, 11 August 1874. CD had complained of remarks made about George Howard Darwin in an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review ([Mivart] 1874).
2
George’s letter was printed in the Quarterly Review 137 (1874): 587–8 (the October issue). The editor was William Smith.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9599A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9599A