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To John Murray   10 April [1875]1

2. Bryanston St. | Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

April 10th

on Monday home

My dear Sir

I have received the M.S all right & am very glad that you will publish it as a separate little book.2 I most heartily hope that it may not prove a loss. I know that some persons have been much interested in it, though it has been read by very few.—

Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from John Murray, 9 April [1875].
2
Murray had returned the manuscript of Climbing plants 2d ed.; see letter from John Murray, 9 April [1875] and n. 2.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 Kent.] before del ‘Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9922,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9922