To Henry Colburn [23 October 1837]
Summary
Has returned from the country, and will superintend the revises [of Journal and remarks].
Can Mr Whiting send slips more often?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Colburn |
| Date: | [23 Oct 1837] |
| Classmark: | Peter Harrington (dealer) (September 2020) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-383F |
To Henry Colburn 4 July [1843]
Summary
Offers to pay for use of plate of map of S. America and for three woodcuts, for German edition of Journal of researches [1844].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Colburn |
| Date: | 4 July [1843] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-680 |
To William Shoberl [21 March 1839]
Summary
Captain FitzRoy has no objection to appending advertisement of other works connected with Beagle voyage to CD’s volume [Journal of researches].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Shoberl; Henry Colburn |
| Date: | [21 Mar 1839] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.18) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-501 |
To William Shoberl [22 or 23 September 1837]
Summary
Thanks WS for a document [see 379]. Promises to send MS and woodcuts before night. Discusses details of printing and correction. Thanks WS and Henry Colburn for assistance.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Shoberl |
| Date: | [22 or 23] Sept 1837 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-380 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Discusses details of printing and correction. Thanks WS and Henry Colburn for assistance. …
- … The document was an agreement Henry Colburn had made with Robert FitzRoy concerning the …
- … 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Henry Colburn. 1839. Narrative : Narrative of the …
- … and 1836. [Edited by Robert FitzRoy. ] 3 vols. and appendix. London: Henry Colburn. 1839. …
- … subsequent editions of the general work Henry Colburn ( John Murray Archive) In his letter …
To J. V. Carus 8 October [1871]
Summary
Glad to hear of new German edition of Origin. He is revising the English edition, adding a new chapter of "Answers".
No new edition of Descent has appeared.
Would be glad to see a new translation of the Journal of researches, which he revised in 1845.
Comments on white colour of sea-birds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 8 Oct [1871] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter LC 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 74–77) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7994 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … of researches was first published by Henry Colburn as Journal and remarks , the third …
- … 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Henry Colburn. 1839. Narrative : Narrative of the …
- … FitzRoy. ] 3 vols. and appendix. London: Henry Colburn. 1839. Origin 6th ed. : The origin …
- … see Correspondence vol. 2, letter to Henry Colburn, 4 July [1843] ). On the development …
- … s circumnavigation of the globe. London: Henry Colburn. 1839. [Separately published as …
To John Murray 20 March [1845]
Summary
Thanks for note; encloses copy of FitzRoy’s agreement with Henry Colburn [see 379], to the effect that after sale of first edition of Narrative, CD is at liberty to publish his Journal of researches in any manner he chooses.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 20 Mar [1845] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.8–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-843 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 19 July [1843]
Summary
Says Colburn will allow German publisher to use copperplate and woodcuts [for Journal of researches]. Has been delayed in corrections owing to death of a relative [Josiah Wedgwood II].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
| Date: | 19 July [1843] |
| Classmark: | Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Gratz collection, case 12, box 7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-682 |
To John Murray 17 March [1845]
Summary
CD has heard from Lyell that JM is inclined to publish a second edition of Journal of researches. His agreement with Henry Colburn leaves CD free to publish with anyone. Will have no further relations with Colburn. Discusses details of proposed revisions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 17 Mar [1845] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.354–355) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-841 |
To John Murray [10 April 1845]
Summary
Is certain he never signed any paper with Henry Colburn or he would have kept a copy as he did of FitzRoy’s agreement. Wishes JM success in his negotiations with Colburn; asks him to remind Colburn that the copperplate has been left with editor of German edition.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | [10 Apr 1845] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.10–11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-855 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 4 July [1843]
Summary
CD gratified that ED wants to translate his Journal. Will send a copy of Coral reefs, which contains a fuller treatment of topic. Perhaps ED would insert a note to this effect. Can lend woodcuts from Coral reefs if ED wants. CD will send a few corrections; he wants to amend way he criticised Agassiz’s glacier theory.
He is also enclosing a questionnaire concerning differences between races or varieties and species, about which he intends to publish sometime.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
| Date: | 4 July [1843] |
| Classmark: | Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt (Nachlass Künzel Br./3/VII/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-680A |
To John Murray 22 October [1870]
Summary
He agrees with his family that binding of Variation looks much better than Origin.
Asks JM to report the number of copies he has printed of Naturalist’s Voyage [Journal of researches].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 22 Oct [1870] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 218–19) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7348 |
To William Shoberl 2 August [1837]
Summary
Asks WS to write to his friend to make his corrections [in CD’s MS of Journal of researches] in ink.
Capt. FitzRoy agrees with the propriety of beginning to print [CD’s volume separately] at once.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Shoberl |
| Date: | 2 Aug [1837] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-369 |
To H. W. Bates 25 September [1861]
Summary
Recommends publisher for HWB; admires J. van Voorst but suggests Murray.
In reply to HWB’s letter [missing], comments on neuters and mimicry.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 25 Sept [1861] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3266 |
To John Murray 10 January [1867]
Summary
Relieved by JM’s note and by his agreement on type size. Is alarmed by what the verdict [on Variation] of JM’s friend will be. He is not a man of science. An unscientific reader would have condemned the Origin. An eminent semi-scientific man thought the Journal of researches not worth publishing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 10 Jan [1867] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 166) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5356 |
To Francis Galton 28 May [1854]
Summary
Discusses how Fuegians and other primitive peoples light fires.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 28 May [1854] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1881 |
To J. D. Hooker [8 or 15 July 1846]
Summary
Regrets he cannot visit JDH.
Has been talking with Lyell about coal, which he finds utterly perplexing.
Is delighted with the generalisations in latest numbers of Flora Antarctica.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [8 or 15] July 1846 |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-986 |
To John Murray 12 April [1845]
Summary
CD clarifies his relationship with Henry Colburn with regard to a 2d ed. of the Journal of researches. "I never signed any agreement of any kind; but the separate sale of my Journal in the first edition was with my verbal consent & approval."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 12 Apr [1845] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.4–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-856 |
To R. F. Cooke 17 December [1875]
Summary
Discusses payment of £10 owed by Italians.
"No corrections for Voyage of Beagle [Journal of researches]."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 17 Dec [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 292 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10304 |
To Robert Hunt 3 May [1866]
Summary
Encloses a sketch of the principal events in his life [for RH’s memoir on CD in Walford, ed., Portraits of men of eminence (1863–7)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Hunt |
| Date: | 3 May [1866] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (tipped into General Special Collections MSS HUN/49) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5524 |
To John Murray [25 January 1860]
Summary
CD asks how soon JM will go to press with Journal [of researches]; thinks he had better look it over to see if progress of science has made any correction necessary.
P.S. Asa Gray has written that Origin has caused great excitement in U. S. Agassiz has denounced it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | [25 Jan 1860] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.64–67) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2632 |
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