From D. Appleton & Co. 17 February 1872
D. Appleton & Co. | 549 & 551 Broadway, N.Y.
Feb 17/72
Dear Sir
Your favor of 3d. is at hand. We will accept the proposal you make respecting the new revised edn. of “Origin” taking casts of plates for 50£ & pay you on the sales.—1 We more than reimbursed ourselves for the Journal of Travel & it still continues to have a fair sale.2 We hope to render yr a/c by next mail. We think the result will be satisfactory to you. We did not like to delay answering yr letter.
We of course desire the plates (electros) of yr new work “Expression of the Emotions” &c & beg you will arrange with Mr Murray when you place the Ms: in his hands.3
Believe us | very faithfully yrs | D Appleton & Co
Charles Darwin Esq
Footnotes
Bibliography
Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
Expression US ed.: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. New York: D. Appleton. 1873.
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. 2d edition. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
Journal of researches: Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by HMS Beagle, under the command of Captain FitzRoy, RN, from 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Henry Colburn. 1839.
Journal of researches US ed. (1871): Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. By Charles Darwin. New edition. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1871.
Summary
Accepts CD’s proposal for new revised edition of Origin; will pay $50 [dollars or pounds!?] for casts of the plates and pay CD on sales.
Appleton edition of CD’s Journal of researches [1871] still selling well.
Also wants plates sent with CD’s new work on Expression. CD should arrange this with Murray’s.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8217
- From
- D. Appleton & Co
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- New York
- Source of text
- DAR 159: 88
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8217,” accessed on 27 July 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8217.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20