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[The Variation of Animals & Plants under Domestication is out of print and, having only one copy himself, he explains how to try to obtain one.]

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The date is conjectured from the fact that a second edition of Variation was planned in February 1875 (see letter from John Murray, 17 February [1875]. In September 1873, John Murray, CD’s publisher, had twenty-six copies left of the first edition (Correspondence vol. 21, letter from John Murray, 25 September [1873]), and by February 1875, copies were evidently not available to buy (letter to John Murray, 16 February [1875].

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9790A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9790A