AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ('CHARLES DARWIN') on mourning stationery to an unknown recipient, reading "Four editions of the Origin have appeared; that published last month is considerably added to and can be purchased through any bookseller. I am glad to hear that you are interested in the subject", one page, integral blank, mailing folds, light age-related toning, 8vo, Down, Beckenham, Kent, 17 December [1866] The stationery features a broad mourning border due to the death of Darwin's sister Susan Elizabeth in October 1866. Darwin received a request from his publisher John Murray for a fourth edition of 'On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection' in February 1866. This edition was released in November and it featured several corrections and additions to the previous ones, including a discussion on whether one or many forms of life first appeared.
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ('CHARLES DARWIN') on mourning stationery to an unknown recipient, reading "Four editions of the Origin have appeared; that published last month is considerably added to and can be purchased through any bookseller. I am glad to hear that you are interested in the subject", one page, integral blank, mailing folds, light age-related toning, 8vo, Down, Beckenham, Kent, 17 December [1866] The stationery features a broad mourning border due to the death of Darwin's sister Susan Elizabeth in October 1866. Darwin received a request from his publisher John Murray for a fourth edition of 'On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection' in February 1866. This edition was released in November and it featured several corrections and additions to the previous ones, including a discussion on whether one or many forms of life first appeared.
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