John Murray moved to 50 Albemarle Street in 1812, as his home and office, after the publication of Lord Byron’s Childe Harold. Albemarle Street is located in Mayfair in central London, off Piccadilly. Byron’s letters were destroyed here after his death.
On 24 February 1871, Charles Darwin published his argument for the gradualist evolution of the human species from animal species in two volumes: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. Image: Charles Darwin, photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron (1868). Reprinted in Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters, edited by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1892. This image is in the public domain in the United States as its copyright has expired.