To John Murray 9 January [1868]
Summary
CD exasperated by Dallas’ delay in finishing index [for Variation]. "I am prepared to throw the Index overboard."
Thinks JM should reconsider publishing a translation of Brehm’s Thierleben. It is excellent and would "sell largely".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 9 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 178–179) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5781 |
From John Murray 10 January [1868]
Summary
CD’s anxiety about the index [of Variation] will be relieved somewhat when he learns it has at last been set up.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 353 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5782 |
From John Murray 6 February [1868]
Summary
Advance sale of Variation has exhausted the 1500 copies printed. Murray sends note for £300 author’s payment. Wants to print 1250 more immediately.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 354 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5844 |
To John Murray 9 February [1868]
Summary
Heartily glad for JM’s sake at sale [of Variation]. Thinks JM right to publish a smaller second edition, for "the public will soon find out that it is dull" – though scientifically valuable. The index is excellent. CD is "always greedy" for presentation copies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 9 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 180–181) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5854 |
From John Murray 12 February [1868]
Summary
CD’s letter encourages Murray to proceed with a new edition of Variation; corrections will cost £176.
First notice has appeared in Pall Mall Gazette [7 (1868): 555].
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 171 : 355 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5869 |
From John Murray 24 February [1868]
Summary
Second issue [of Variation] is ready.
Murray thinks that the Athenæum review was written by J. E. Gray [see 5931].
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 356 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5923 |
To John Murray 25 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks JM for presentation copies [of Variation]. Sends directions and list.
Has been told positively that hostile review in Athenæum was by Berthold Seemann, to whom he once refused a testimonial.
On the whole, reviews have been very good.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 25 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 182–183) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5931 |
From John Murray 3 March [1868]
Summary
JM offers a note for 400 guineas as author’s payment on sale of 1250 copies of 2d issue of Variation.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 357 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5972 |
To John Murray 4 March [1868]
Summary
Payment of 400 guineas [Variation royalties] delights CD.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 4 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 f. 36) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5978 |
From John Murray 6 March [1868]
Summary
JM sends note for £420.
Asks CD to use his good offices on behalf of William Clowes’s son who is up for election to Athenaeum.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 358 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5988 |
To John Murray 6 March 1868
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of bill for £420.
Will try to attend Athenaeum meeting to help elect Clowes’s son.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 6 Mar 1868 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff. 37–38) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5989 |
To John Murray [25? March 1868]
Summary
American publishers will not wait for woodcuts, so asks Murray to have a copy of the reprint sent to Asa Gray. Will call soon to talk about Für Darwin and to hear about sale of latest edition of Origin
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | [25? Mar 1868] |
Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (10 November 2009); PBA Galleries (dealers) (10 May 2012) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6050F |
To John Murray 13 April [1868]
Summary
Asks JM to send Variation to G. Boccardo in Italy.
Sends title (suggested by Lyell) for translation of Fritz Müller’s Für Darwin (which Dallas is translating). CD does not wish to go to great expense in advertising it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 13 Apr [1868] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 184–185) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6114 |
To John Murray 14 April [1868]
Summary
About the advertising and title of a book [the translation of Fritz Müller’s Für Darwin, see 6114].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 14 Apr [1868] |
Classmark: | RR Auction (dealers) (June 2006) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6119A |
To John Murray 25 May 1868
Summary
Asks JM to consider publishing a MS on John Wesley by CD’s niece, Frances Julia Wedgwood [John Wesley and the evangelical reaction of the eighteenth century (1870)].
Has received clean sheets for Italian translation [of Variation?].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 25 May 1868 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.186–189) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6207 |
From John Murray 27 May [1868]
Summary
Will be glad to see Miss Wedgwood’s MS on Wesley.
The clichés of Fritz Müller’s work [Für Darwin] have arrived.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 May [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 359 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6212 |
To John Murray 16 September [1868]
Summary
B. D. Walsh has not received his copy of Variation. Several other foreign correspondents have similar complaints.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 16 Sept [1868] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.190–191) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6369 |
From John Murray 18 September [1868]
Summary
JM will send another copy of Variation to B. D. Walsh.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Sept [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 360 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6376 |
From John Murray 22 September [1868]
Summary
Lost copy of Variation sent to B. D. Walsh has been traced as far as New York.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Sept [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 361 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6385 |
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