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From Emile Alglave   9 March 1871

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Reminds CD of earlier promise to permit extracts of Descent to be translated and published in EA’s Revue Scientifique once entire work is printed. Book appeared weeks ago, so EA again requests permission. Revue has been appearing irregularly owing to war with Germans.

Author:  Émile Alglave
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 159: 36
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7558

From John Murray   9 March [1871]

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JM will print 2000 more copies of Descent as a second edition [issue]. Profits should be large as expenses are small.

Author:  John Murray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 171: 391
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7559

From Hensleigh Wedgwood   [after 9 March 1871]

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Answers CD’s letter [7560], on points of agreement between them, the chief one being the sympathy which man has with his fellows. Disagrees however with CD’s "principle" of the painful feelings of dissatisfied instinct.

Author:  Hensleigh Wedgwood
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 9 Mar 1871]
Classmark:  DAR 88: 60–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7562