From John Murray   1 May [1875]1

50, Albemarle St. | W.

May 1—

My Dear Sir

I propose to print 1000 copies of your Flesh Eating Plants—wch may last for some time2   However in case of a larger demand I shall try & induce Mess Clowes to keep up the type a little while— I do not doubt of disposing of the 1000, though the work is strictly a Monograph3

I am | My Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | John Murray

Chas. Darwin Esqr

1
The year is established by the reference to the forthcoming publication of Insectivorous plants (see n. 2, below).
2
Insectivorous plants was published on 2 July 1875 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)).
3
William Clowes & Sons were the printers used by John Murray; movable-type formes were usually dismantled after a work had been published unless a reprint was likely to be required in a short period of time. The second and third thousand were printed in 1875, and the fourth thousand in 1876 (Freeman 1977).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9964,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9964