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From Charles Layton   10 March 1876

16 Little Britain (City)

March 10/76

Dear Sir

I enclose cheque on Union Bank for £35.13.8 in payment of above a/c which please acknowledge & oblige1

Yours Respectfully | Charles Layton | Agent D. Appleton & Co

Charles Darwin Esq

The Stereo Plates N.E Variation of Plants & Animals have been sent to New York, since Feby 18 date of letter opposite—2

Footnotes

The payment was for the royalties for the US editions of CD’s works; see letter from D. Appleton & Co., 18 February 1876. CD recorded the receipt of £35 13s. 8d. in his Account books–banking account (Down House MS) on 11 March 1876.
The letter was written on the verso of the letter from D. Appleton & Co., 18 February 1876. Layton refers to the stereotype plates for the second (new) edition of Variation.

Bibliography

Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.

Summary

Encloses cheque for balance listed on accompanying statement of sales [see 10401].

Stereo plates for new edition of Variation have been sent to New York.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-10417
From
Charles James (Charles) Layton; D. Appleton & Co
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
London, Little Britain, 16
Source of text
DAR 159: 98v
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10417,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10417.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24

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