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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- … November 1872 and n. 8. See letter to John Murray, 11 November 1872 and n. 7. Murray …
- … by the relationship between this letter and the letter to John Murray, 11 November 1872 . …
- … letter from R. F. Cooke, 14 August 1872 . The photographic illustrations in Expression raised the price of the book (see Ekman 1998 and Prodger 2009 ). Murray refers to the sixth edition of Origin ; see letter to R. F. Cooke, 27 October [1872] and n. 6. See letter to John Murray, 11 …
From John Murray 12 August 1874
Summary
Acknowledges CD’s complaint against a paper [by St George Mivart] in the last Quarterly Review [see 9568]. Agrees to print George Darwin’s answer [see 9596].
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Aug 1874 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 41914 p. 203) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9599A |
From W. S. Dallas 14 February 1868
Summary
WSD expresses his willingness to do further translating for CD. Sends terms of remuneration.
| Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5877 |
From R. F. Cooke 12 June 1880
Summary
Matters related to Climbing plants
and reprint [1880] of Forms of flowers.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 505 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12631 |
From R. F. Cooke 22 October 1872
Summary
Presentation copies [of Expression] will be ready in a week. Has ordered only 250 copies to have cut edges because trade prefers uncut pages.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Oct 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 425 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8570 |
To John Murray 22 February [1866]
Summary
CD is pleased [about need for a new edition of Origin] but even more grieved – for it will delay his next book [Variation]. Progress of natural history will make many changes necessary in Origin. Nevertheless, proceeds with 32 more woodcuts for Variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 22 Feb [1866] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 139–142) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5016 |
To John Murray 23 September [1871]
Summary
Has been so unwell that he could do absolutely nothing on Origin [6th ed.]. A new chapter seven has cost much labour.
Sorry to hear R. I. Murchison is ill.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 23 Sept [1871] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 234–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7964 |
From R. F. Cooke 12 April 1877
Summary
JM will be pleased to publish the new work [Forms of flowers] on the usual terms. MS has been sent to the printer.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 487 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10927 |
From G. H. Darwin 6 [August] 1874
Summary
Sends a draft of his letter to the editor of the Quarterly Review [137 (1874): 587–9], answering Mivart’s charges. Encloses draft of CD’s letter to John Murray, urging publication of GHD’s defence, with George’s amendments.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 [Aug] 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C56–8; DAR 210.2: 39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9590 |
From E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung 7 June 1862
Summary
Discusses publication of second German edition of Origin [1863] and German edition of Orchids [1862].
| Author: | E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 June 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3590 |
From Paolo Mantegazza 23 December 1872
Summary
Ecstatic praise of CD and Expression, which has transformed physiognomy.
Sends his papers on sadness ["Dell’azione del dolore", Gaz. Med. Ital. Lombarda (1866, 1867)]. Sends some observations on physiognomy.
| Author: | Paolo Mantegazza |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Dec 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8692 |
From John Tyndall 16 April 1873
Summary
It is Huxley’s "duty to do what we wish him to do – his duty to his wife and children, his duty to us and to the world". Shares CD’s wish that Mrs [Henry] L[yell?] had not subscribed – it suggests the idea of an effort.
| Author: | John Tyndall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Apr 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: C13–14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8860 |
To W. S. Dallas [14 January 1868]
Summary
CD was frustrated by the delay [in producing index for Variation], but was quite mollified by WSD’s note; is sorry the work turned out so badly for him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Sweetland Dallas |
| Date: | [14 Jan 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5783 |
From D. Appleton & Co 23 November 1875
Summary
Can cut the electros from the plates of the illustrations for the new edition of Variation if they are the same as in the first edition.
Has received plates for Climbing plants and will print immediately.
| Author: | D. Appleton & Co |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Nov 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 97 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10271 |
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 |
To John Murray 12 May [1871]
Summary
Will require at least six weeks’ notice before a new edition of Descent has to go to press because of considerable corrections needed.
Thinks cheap edition of Origin is needed, since he could answer objections in it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 12 May [1871] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 244–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7755 |
To R. F. Cooke 12 April 1881
Summary
Agrees that new book [Earthworms] be published on old terms. Hopes it will not fail.
CD is curious to read an essay on evolution by a Hindu, which is being sent to Murray from India.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1881 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 385–6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13114 |
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| Cooke, R. F. | (5) |
| John Murray | (5) |
| Murray, John (b) | (4) |
| D. Appleton & Co | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (33) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (10) |
| Murray, John (b) | (9) |
| Gray, Asa | (5) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (82) |
| Murray, John (b) | (13) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (12) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (8) |
| John Murray | (8) |
human evolution in Commentary
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
Summary
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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