From John Murray 9 November 1872
Summary
The reception of Expression has exceeded even JM’s expectations; 5267 copies were sold at the annual sale. CD’s modesty about the work had misled him about its probable sale.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Nov 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 429 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8616 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From John Murray 9 November 1872 …
- … took place on 8 November 1872 (see letter from John Murray, 6 November [1872] and n. 4). …
- … See letter to John Murray, 7 November [1872] . CD’s annotation is for his letter to Murray …
- … DAR 171: 429 John Murray London, Albemarle St, 50 9 Nov 1872 Charles Robert Darwin …
From John Murray 12 November [1872]
Summary
Price of Expression is 12s.
Sends cheque to pay CD his share of profits on Origin [6th ed.].
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Nov [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 430 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8622 |
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- … From John Murray 12 November [1872] …
- … See letter to John Murray, 11 November 1872 and n. 7. Murray refers to Charles Edward …
- … DAR 171: 430 John Murray London, Albemarle St, 50 12 Nov [1872] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … this letter and the letter to John Murray, 11 November 1872 . See letter from R. F. …
- … 27 October [1872] and n. 6. See letter to John Murray, 11 November 1872 and n. 8. …
- … animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. Origin : On the origin of species …
From John Murray 2 February [1872]
Summary
Accedes to CD’s request to let Appleton have a set of stereotypes of the 6th English edition of Origin at a little above cost.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Feb [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 406 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8195 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From John Murray 2 February [1872] …
- … by the relationship between this letter and the letter to John Murray, 30 January 1872 . …
- … See letter to John Murray, 30 January 1872 . Murray refers to Origin 6th ed. CD’s American …
- … DAR 171: 406 John Murray London, Albemarle St, 50 2 Feb [1872] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 6th edition, with additions and corrections. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. …
From John Murray 3 September [1872]
Summary
R. Cooke has increased the order for heliotypes [for Expression] to 8000. Reimburses CD for cost of artists.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Sept [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 420 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8508 |
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- … From John Murray 3 September [1872] …
- … Eduard Koch . See letter to John Murray, 30 August [1872] and n. 2. CD’s Account books– …
- … DAR 171: 420 John Murray London, Albemarle St, 50 3 Sept [1872] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. …
- … August 1872. See letter to John Murray, 30 August [1872] . Murray refers to Robert Francis …
From John Murray 6 November [1872]
Summary
Is convinced that 2000 more copies [of Expression] must be printed without delay in order to meet demand. He therefore asks CD to send his corrections to the printer at once.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Nov [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 428 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8602 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From John Murray 6 November [1872] …
- … DAR 171: 428 John Murray London, Albemarle St, 50 6 Nov [1872] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … letter and the letter to John Murray, 7 November [1872] . Murray had originally planned to …
- … animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The …
From John Murray 7 June [1872]
Summary
Messrs Clowes have received MS of Expression. JM submits specimen pages for CD’s approval.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 June [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 409 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8374 |
From John Murray 9 March 1872
Summary
JM arranges to pay CD for the latest issue of Descent.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Mar 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 408 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8239 |
From John Murray 6 January [1876]
Summary
At last, Expression is beginning to sell again.
Cooke has not yet decided on number of Variation [2d ed.] to print.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Jan [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 481 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10347 |
From John Murray 29 July [1874]
Summary
Orchids is at last sold out. Settles account.
The Origin [6th ed.] is making good [sales] progress.
Expression is not selling.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 July [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.11: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9574 |
From John Murray 31 May [1871]
Summary
On photographic illustrations [for Expression].
Estimates 7s 6d price for a cheap edition of Origin [6th].
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 May [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 400 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7784 |
From John Murray 10 February [1873]
Summary
Encloses cheque for 1000 guineas, CD’s share of profits on first 7000 copies of Expression.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Feb [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 435 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8763 |
From John Murray 17 February [1875]
Summary
JM expresses his willingness to publish a new edition of Variation whenever CD revises it.
Descent [2d ed.] has not sold much since the annual sale – 1300 copies altogether.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Feb [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 444 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9861 |
From John Murray 19 November [1875]
Summary
Report on sales of Origin, Insectivorous plants, and Climbing plants.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Nov [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.11: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10265 |
From John Murray 25 September [1873]
Summary
Acknowledges CD’s cheque.
Sends CD cheque for profits on Orchids and a statement of stock on hand of CD’s works [missing].
Origin and Expression sales are stagnant.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Sept [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 437, DAR 210.11: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9071 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. Seville, Catherine. 1999. Literary copyright …
- … John Murray, 24 September [1873] and n. 2. CD was paying for the presentation copies of his works. Murray’s statement for Orchids and the stocks of CD’s other works is in the Darwin Archive–CUL (DAR 210.11: 1). Origin 6th ed. had been published in February 1872 ( …
From John Murray 22 November [1875]
Summary
Sends cheques in payment on three of CD’s books.
Proposes to print 500 copies of Insectivorous plants before distributing the type.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Nov [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 478 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10270 |
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 |
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 |
From John Murray 18 September [1869]
Summary
JM is about to start a new monthly literary review [the Academy]. Would like to publish in first number a short notice of the new work upon which CD is engaged [Descent].
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Sept [1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 371 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6897 |
| letter | (18) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
| Murray, John (b) | (18) |
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 …
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 …
Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute
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Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The variation of animals and plants under domestication (Variation). The importance of Darwin’s network of correspondents becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in…
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- … Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The …
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, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early …
Rewriting Origin - the later editions
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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions. Many of his changes were made in…
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- … If I lived 20 more years, & was able to work, how I sh d . have to modify the “Origin”, & …
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 …
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 …
St George Jackson Mivart
Summary
In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
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- … In 1874, the Catholic zoologist St George Jackson Mivart caused Darwin and his son George serious …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … On 6 March 1868, Darwin wrote to the entomologist and accountant John Jenner Weir, ‘If …
John Maurice Herbert
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John Maurice Herbert was a close friend of Darwin’s at Cambridge University. He was affectionately called ‘Cherbury’ by Darwin, a reference to the seventeenth-century philosopher Edward Herbert, Baron Cherbury, who, like John Herbert, hailed from…
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- … John Maurice Herbert was a close friend of Darwin’s at Cambridge University. He was affectionately …
Earthworms
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As with many of Darwin’s research topics, his interest in worms spanned nearly his entire working life. Some of his earliest correspondence about earthworms was written and received in the 1830s, shortly after his return from his Beagle voyage, and his…
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- … Sources | Discussion Questions | Experiment Earthworms and Wedgwood cousins …
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 …
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 …
Survival of the fittest: the trouble with terminology Part II
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The most forceful and persistent critic of the term ‘natural selection’ was the co-discoverer of the process itself, Alfred Russel Wallace. Wallace seized on Herbert Spencer’s term ‘survival of the fittest’, explicitly introduced as an alternative way of…
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- … This term is the plain expression of the facts,—Nat. selection is a metaphorical …
Forms of flowers
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Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, published in 1877, investigated the structural differences in the sexual organs of flowers of the same species. It drew on and expanded five articles Darwin had published on the…
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- … Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species , published in 1877, …
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 …
4.14 'Fun' cartoon, 'That troubles'
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< Back to Introduction Of all the cartoons showing Darwin as an ape, ‘That troubles our monkey again’ by John Gordon Thomson is the only one that hints, albeit playfully, at improper behaviour. Descent of Man had been criticised for its apparent…
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- … < Back to Introduction Of all the cartoons showing Darwin as an ape, ‘That troubles …
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 …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
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- … On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July …
