To Ernst Krause 30 July 1880
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
July 30th 1880
My dear Sir
I received this morning the enclosed account, which be so kind as to return to me. The profit is lamentably small viz 9£"15s"5d, which I herewith transmit by cheque1 You will see 218 copies are still unsold, & whether they ever will be sold, I cannot conjecture. We shall know next year & then the profit of any sale shall be transmitted to you.—
I have heard nothing from the U. States about the sale of the book by Mess. Appleton.—2
My dear Sir | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
[Enclosure]
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Life of Dr. Erasmus Darwin
Cr
1879 Dec
To Printing 1000 No 68 9 10 By 1000 copies
1879 Dec
" 14 Rms Dble Crown 21 10 – 5 Stati’s Hall3
" Binding 1000 Copies 26 12 – 12 Author
" Autotype Co. for – – – 37 Reviews
" 3000 Portraits 18 2 11 272 218 in Hand June 1880
" Cooper Engraving 5 15 – 728 Sold viz
" Advertising 51 9 6 604 Trade 25 as 24 5/ 145 – –
" Can ‘Allow’ to agent 2 1 7 124 do — — 5/4 32 – –
" Balance Profit 14 13 2 728
/ By D Appleton for a | Set of Stereo-plates 13 8 6
/ By H Schultze for | 2000 Portraits 16 5 –
/ 2000 Illustratns. 2pp 5 – –
211 13 6 211 13 6
1880 June By 218 on hand | –Author’s 2/3 Profit 9 15 5
Footnotes
Bibliography
Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1879.
Erasmus Darwin US ed.: Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1880.
Seville, Catherine. 1999. Literary copyright reform in early Victorian England: the framing of the 1842 Copyright Act. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Summary
Profit on Erasmus Darwin is £9 15s 5d. Sends cheque. 218 copies remain unsold.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12675
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- The Huntington Library (HM 36207); DAR 210.11: 18
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12675,” accessed on 6 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12675.xml