Darwin Online Manuscript Catalogue
| Identifier: | PC-USA-DescentReceipt |
| Date: | 1871 |
| Name: | Darwin Charles Robert |
| Attributed title: | Receipt for Murray's payment for Descent of man |
| Description: | This very rare document is the receipt for Darwin's earnings for the first edition of Descent of man. It is in the hand of a clerk of his publisher John Murray and signed by Darwin in the unusual form of "Ch. R. Darwin" over an inland revenue one-penny stamp. The text of the recto of this receipt was published (from a photocopy) in The correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19, p. 102. |
| Document type: | Correspondence |