From John Murray   9 April [1875]1

50, Albemarle St. | W.

April 9

My Dear Sir

Your Twining & Climbing Plants” seems to me a very curious book & I am quite willing to publish it for you on the conditions adopted in your previous publications—I taking all risque

I return the MS with this as I believe you propose making some alterations in the MS—now that it is to come forth as a separate volume2

My Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | John Murray

Chas Darwin Esqr

1
The year is established by the reference to Climbing plants 2d ed. (see n. 2, below).
2
Climbing plants 2d ed. was published in November 1875 (Publishers’ circular 1875); CD had originally planned to publish it as part of Insectivorous plants (letter to J. V. Carus, 7 February 1875). The first edition was published as a double issue of the Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) (‘Climbing plants’) and as a book (Climbing plants) published by Longmans and Williams & Norgate.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9921,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9921