From John Murray 3 March [1868]1
50A, Albemarle St. | W.
Mar. 3
My Dear Sir
On making up the accounts of expences incurred in the Second Edition of your “Animals & Plants” Under Domestication”— I find that the sale of 1250 copies, of wch the Edition consists, will enable me to offer you for it, the sum of Four Hundred Guineas, by note at 4 months from the day of publication.2
It is right to tell you that in this calculation I have added to the expences of the 2nd Edn a sum of £30 " paid for paper of the 1st. Edn. & omitted to be charged by oversight— I trust you will not see reason to object to this
I remain My Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | John Murray
Charles Darwin Esq
Footnotes
Bibliography
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
JM offers a note for 400 guineas as author’s payment on sale of 1250 copies of 2d issue of Variation.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5972
- From
- John Murray
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Albemarle St, 50a
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 357
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5972,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5972.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
