From John Murray 10 October [1870]
Summary
Cannot find the [indelicate] passage he referred to in last letter.
Various publication arrangements.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Oct [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 379 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7339 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … From John Murray 10 October [1870] …
- … DAR 171: 379 John Murray London, Albemarle St, 50 10 Oct [1870] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … this letter and the letter from John Murray, 28 September [1870] . Murray had written to …
- … to write the index for Descent (see letter to John Murray, 26 September 1870 , and …
- … letter from John Murray, 28 September [1870] ). The enclosure has not been found. …
- … proof-sheets of Descent , see the letter from John Murray, 28 September [1870] and n. …
- … 7; see also the letter to John Murray, 29 September [1870] . CD wrote Descent 2: 345 n. …
- … Sons . See letter to John Murray, 26 September 1870 . CD had promised the American …
- … the woodcuts (see letter to John Murray, 29 September [1870] and n. 3). Hendrik Adrianus …
- … letter of 13 September 1870 (National Library of Scotland, John Murray Archive, Ms. 42153 …
From John Murray 28 September [1870]
Summary
Various arrangements concerning the publication of Descent. "It will cause men to prick up [their] ears – & to elevate their eyebrows." JM thinks he will venture to print 2500 copies.
Suggests CD tone down as possibly indelicate a passage on proportion of advances made by the two sexes in animals.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Sept [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 378 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7329 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From John Murray 28 September [1870] …
- … DAR 171: 378 John Murray London, Albemarle St, 50 28 Sept [1870] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … by the relationship between this letter and the letter to John Murray, 26 September 1870 . …
- … See letter to John Murray, 26 September 1870 and nn. 1 and 2. …
- … Clowes & Sons . See letter to John Murray, 26 September 1870 . The reference is to D. …
- … Appleton & Co . See letter to John Murray, 26 September 1870 and n. 6. Murray refers …
- … Cassell, Petter & Galpin. See letter to John Murray, 26 September 1870 and nn. 3 and 7. …
- … Sweetland Dallas . See letter to John Murray, 26 September 1870 . Murray may refer to the …
- … 268–73. See the letter from John Murray, 10 October [1870] and n. 3. CD briefly remarked …
From John Murray 16 November [1870]
Summary
JM reports 1900 [advance] copies of Descent were taken at his annual sale,
and 340 copies of Origin [5th ed.] were sold.
Sheets for Dutch publisher will be sent to CD immediately. JM cautions against possibility that Dutch edition will anticipate the English.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Nov [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 381 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7372 |
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- … From John Murray 16 November [1870] …
- … DAR 171: 381 John Murray London, Albemarle St, 50 16 Nov [1870] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter to John Murray, 15 November [1870] . …
- … See letter to John Murray, 15 November [1870] and n. 2. Murray refers to Origin 5th ed. ( …
- … published early in 1871). See letter to John Murray, 15 November [1870] and n. 4. …
- … See letter to John Murray, 15 November [1870] and n. 3. The reference is to Hendrik …
From John Murray 24 October [1870]
Summary
Sends table of sales [of Journal of researches]. 2000 copies sold since 1860.
Descent has gone to press for 2500 copies.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Oct [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 380 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7350 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From John Murray 24 October [1870] …
- … of most of the illustrations in Descent (see letter from John Murray, 10 October [1870] ). …
- … DAR 171: 380 John Murray London, Albemarle St, 50 24 Oct [1870] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 8, below). See letter to John Murray, 22 October [1870] . Murray refers to the different …
- … editions (see letter to John Murray, 22 October [1870] and n. 3). Journal of researches …
- … researches (1870) . See letter to John Murray, 22 October [1870] . The references are to …
- … and the US edition (letters to John Murray , 26 September 1870 and nn. 1 and 2, and 11 …
- … By Charles Darwin. New edition. London: John Murray. 1870. Journal of researches 2d ed. : …
- … edition. London: John Murray. 1860. Journal of researches (1870): Journal of researches …
From John Murray 10 June [1870]
Summary
Asks CD whether he is far enough along with his new work [Descent] to allow him to announce it as a forthcoming publication in his next quarterly list.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 June [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 375 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7226 |
From John Murray 6 August [1870]
Summary
JM informs CD that he will have Clowes give him written assurance that the printing [of Descent] will proceed without interruption.
The [Franco-Prussian] War is a sad damper on international science and his publishing plans.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Aug [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 377 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7295 |
From John Murray 1 July 1870
Summary
Financial adjustments for last edition of Origin
and a tentative title for the new work: "Descent of man and selection according to sex". [Later changed to "in relation to sex".]
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 376 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7259 |
From John Murray 3 November 1874
Summary
Statement of stock on hand of CD’s works.
Expression, curiously, at a dead stand-still.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Nov 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 441 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9707 |
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- … command of Capt. FitzRoy RN. By Charles Darwin. New edition. London: John Murray. 1870. …
- … Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. Journal of researches (1870): Journal of researches …
- … 1870) . CD was managing the financial side of the English translation of F. Müller 1864 (Dallas trans. 1869). He had earlier transmitted royalties to Fritz Müller after a thousand copies had sold (see Correspondence vol. 21, letter to Fritz Müller, 25 September 1873 ). CD had probably sent Murray a request for presentation copies of Descent 2d ed. The right-hand column of the table is a printed list of CD’s titles that John …
From John Murray 1 November [1867]
Summary
Sends Dallas’ specimen of indexing [for Variation].
Asks CD’s opinion of likelihood of a hybrid of ass and bull, reported in a MS of a journey to Asia Minor he is reading.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Nov [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 352 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5661 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … John Murray, 2 November [1867] ). Murray refers to a manuscript later published by him as Travels in little-known parts of Asia Minor: with illustrations of biblical literature and researches in archaeology by Henry John Van Lennep ( Van Lennep 1870 ). …
- … John. 1870. Travels in little-known parts of Asia Minor: with illustrations of biblical literature and researches in archaeology. 2 vols. London: John Murray. …
From John Murray 8 November [1869]
Summary
JM advises CD regarding his relations with Masson, the French publisher of the Origin [1866], and the possibility of Reinwald’s publishing a translation of the 5th edition.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Nov [1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 373 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6978 |
From John Murray 10 May 1871
Summary
Offers CD same payment for the 3d issue of Descent as for 2d.
Has bespoke four better drawings of birds in case a 4th issue is needed.
Vanity Fair wants CD’s portrait by Carlo Pellegrini ["Ape"].
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 May 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 398 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7750 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … John Murray, 18 March [1871] ). For the third printing he received £420 in November 1871 and £420 in February 1872 (CD’s Account books–banking account (Down House MS)). Descent was printed a fourth time in December 1871 ( Freeman 1977 ), but the new illustrations by Thomas William Wood did not appear until the second edition was published in 1874. See letter from T. W. Wood, 24 April 1871 . The editor of Vanity Fair was Thomas Gibson Bowles . The portrait of Roderick Impey Murchison appeared in the 26 November 1870 …
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Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the …
John Murray
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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…
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- … Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was …
Women as a scientific audience
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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
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- … Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's …
Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
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- … ‘My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, ‘is so nearly closed. . . What little more I …
Cross and self fertilisation
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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
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- … The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom , published on 10 November …
Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest
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The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…
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- … The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, seeing the publication of his …
Francis Darwin
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Known to his family as ‘Frank’, Charles Darwin’s seventh child himself became a distinguished scientist. He was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, initially studying mathematics, but then transferring to natural sciences. Francis completed…
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- … Known to his family as ‘Frank’, Charles Darwin’s seventh child himself became a distinguished …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and …
Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
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- … The following extracts and selected letters explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual …
Francis Galton
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Galton was a naturalist, statistician, and evolutionary theorist. He was a second cousin of Darwin’s, having descended from his grandfather, Erasmus. Born in Birmingham in 1822, Galton studied medicine at King’s College, London, and also read mathematics…
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- … Galton was a naturalist, statistician, and evolutionary theorist. He was a second cousin of Darwin …
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
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- … The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was …
Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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- … Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of …
Experimenting with emotions
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Darwin’s interest in emotions can be traced as far back as the Beagle voyage. He was fascinated by the sounds and gestures of the peoples of Tierra del Fuego. On his return, he started recording observations in a set of notebooks, later labelled '…
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- … Darwin’s interest in emotions can be traced as far back as the Beagle voyage. He was fascinated by …
Movement in Plants
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The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…
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- … The power of movement in plants , published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical …
Bartholomew James Sulivan
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On Christmas Day 1866, Bartholomew Sulivan sat down to write a typically long and chatty letter to his old friend, Charles Darwin, commiserating on shared ill-health, glorying in the achievements of their children, offering to collect plant specimens, and…
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- … On Christmas Day 1866, Bartholomew Sulivan sat down to write a typically long and chatty letter to …
Power of movement in plants
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Family experiments Darwin was an active and engaged father during his children's youth, involving them in his experiments and even occasionally using them as observational subjects. When his children…
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- … Sources | Discussion Questions | Experiment Family experiments Darwin …
3.9 Leonard Darwin, photo on horseback
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< Back to Introduction It is so rare to encounter an image of Darwin in a specific locale that a family photograph of him riding his horse Tommy takes on a special interest. He is at the front of Down House, the door of which is open; it seems as…
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- … < Back to Introduction It is so rare to encounter an image of Darwin in a specific …
Darwin and the Church
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The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
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- … The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It …
