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From J. W. Clark 8 September 1877
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An example of inheritance confined to one sex.
| Author: | Joseph Warner Clark |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 156 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11131 |
To John Price 8 September [1877–80?]
Summary
Kind of JP to send notes on horses, but will not write on subject again.
Erasmus Darwin has not left his house for three years.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Price |
| Date: | 8 Sept [1877-80] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 278 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13836 |
Author
| Clark, J. W. (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Price, John | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Clark, J. W. (b) | (1) |
| Price, John | (1) |
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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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- … end of 1845, Darwin was not happy with Colburn’s terms ( Letter 856 ). Instead he asked his friend …
- … John Murray, to open negotiations with his own publisher ( Letter 824 ). Lyell’s talk with Murray …
- … have transacted the business with me’ (27 August [1845] Letter 908 ). Thus began the business …
- … copies some pages in Darwin’s chapter were transposed ( Letter 1244 ). Darwin was anxious lest an …
- … & make the poor workman some present’ (12 June [1849] Letter 1245 ). Darwin’s next …
- … his ‘big species book’; on 18 June 1858, he received a letter from Alfred Russel Wallace with the …
- … asked Lyell to act as his intermediary with John Murray ( Letter 2437 ), who, without even reading …
- … not repent of having undertaken it’ (15 October [1859] Letter 2506 ). Murray decided on a retail …
- … proud at the appearance of my child’ ([3 November 1859] Letter 2514 ). In the event, all Murray’s …
- … – and a second edition was immediately called for ( Letter 2549 ). In the end Murray paid Darwin …
- … (Variation ), but work progressed slowly ( Letter 3078 ); meanwhile in 1862 Murray published On …
- … Murray only offered Darwin half profits for this title ( Letter 3261 ); it was never a best-seller …
- … ‘I fear it can never pay’ (3 January [1867] Letter 5346 ). In the end Murray decided to print …
- … to Brazil, the beginning of a life-long correspondence ( Letter 4881 ). Subsequently Darwin …
- … the risk himself. Murray suggested printing 750 copies ( Letter 6597 ), but Darwin decided on 1000 …
- … fail, I think, to be much read’ (28 September [1870] Letter 7329 ). Murray decided to print 2500 …
- … hope to Heaven book will sell well’ (12 January [1871] Letter 7438 ). A second printing was …
- … America, of St George Mivart‘s Genesis of species ( Letter 7907 ) ; this was Darwin’s …
- … By November of that year, fourteen copies had been sold ( Letter 8044 ). Meanwhile, Darwin was …
- … Darwin chose to print the photographic illustrations ( Letter 7773 ), proved to be expensive ( …
