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To John Murray 4 September [1870]
Summary
Variation is a much better looking volume than Origin due to quality of paper and binding. Hopes JM will attend to this point in Descent. Printers have sent "splendid lot" of proofs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 4 Sept [1870] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 211) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7316 |
To John Murray 26 September 1870
Summary
Wants sheets [of Descent] for foreign editions. Asks JM to determine price to be charged for the stereotypes of 62 cuts. Dallas would be excellent for the index but must be "civilly warned" not to delay. Encloses memo on the index.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 26 Sept 1870 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 214–17) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7327 |
To John Murray 29 September [1870]
Summary
CD did not promise Appleton stereotypes of text [of Descent]; only of cuts.
Wishes to know which passage JM thought "coarse". Remembers only a quotation from John Hunter on courtship of female being required "to give her desires" [Descent 1: 273]. He fancied a quotation rendered the sentence less coarse.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 29 Sept [1870] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 212–13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7331 |
