To John Murray [9 March 1872 or later]1
9. Devonshire St | Portland Place
My dear Mr Murray
Many thanks for your note. It really makes no difference to me whether you give me a Bill, or a cheque at the time proposed, for the profits, i.e. £315,— Pray do whichever seems best to you. I have been vexed to find that some of my friends & as I hear some booksellers, complain of the type of the new Edit. of the Origin.2
I found no difficulty in reading the proofs, & my eyesight now is not very good; yet the lines now do seem to me not very distinct.— But there is no help for it, so it is no use thinking about it.—
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Summary
CD is vexed to hear that some of his friends and some booksellers complain of the type of the new [6th] edition of Origin. CD, whose eyesight is not good, had no trouble reading proofs.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8230
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Murray
- Sent from
- London, Devonshire St, 9
- Source of text
- National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 274–5)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8230,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
