From John Murray 18 September [1869]
Summary
JM is about to start a new monthly literary review [the Academy]. Would like to publish in first number a short notice of the new work upon which CD is engaged [Descent].
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Sept [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 371 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6897 |
From John Murray 8 November [1869]
Summary
JM advises CD regarding his relations with Masson, the French publisher of the Origin [1866], and the possibility of Reinwald’s publishing a translation of the 5th edition.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Nov [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 373 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6978 |
From John Murray 17 November 1869
Summary
JM reports sales of Facts and arguments for Darwin, Variation, and Origin [5th ed.].
Sends best wishes for success in putting down "Parisian blasphemers".
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 374 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6992 |
From John Murray 10 June [1870]
Summary
Asks CD whether he is far enough along with his new work [Descent] to allow him to announce it as a forthcoming publication in his next quarterly list.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 June [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 375 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7226 |
From John Murray 1 July 1870
Summary
Financial adjustments for last edition of Origin
and a tentative title for the new work: "Descent of man and selection according to sex". [Later changed to "in relation to sex".]
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 July 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 376 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7259 |
From John Murray 6 August [1870]
Summary
JM informs CD that he will have Clowes give him written assurance that the printing [of Descent] will proceed without interruption.
The [Franco-Prussian] War is a sad damper on international science and his publishing plans.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Aug [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 377 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7295 |
From John Murray 28 September [1870]
Summary
Various arrangements concerning the publication of Descent. "It will cause men to prick up [their] ears – & to elevate their eyebrows." JM thinks he will venture to print 2500 copies.
Suggests CD tone down as possibly indelicate a passage on proportion of advances made by the two sexes in animals.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Sept [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 378 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7329 |
From John Murray 10 October [1870]
Summary
Cannot find the [indelicate] passage he referred to in last letter.
Various publication arrangements.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Oct [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 379 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7339 |
From John Murray 24 October [1870]
Summary
Sends table of sales [of Journal of researches]. 2000 copies sold since 1860.
Descent has gone to press for 2500 copies.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Oct [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 380 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7350 |
From John Murray 16 November [1870]
Summary
JM reports 1900 [advance] copies of Descent were taken at his annual sale,
and 340 copies of Origin [5th ed.] were sold.
Sheets for Dutch publisher will be sent to CD immediately. JM cautions against possibility that Dutch edition will anticipate the English.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Nov [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 381 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7372 |
From John Murray 18 February [1871]
Summary
Bound copies [of Descent] have been dispatched to CD.
Robert Cooke, JM’s cousin and partner, has been nominated for Athenaeum; asks CD’s support.
Begs CD not to permit any notice by F. P. Cobbe to appear until after next week.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 387 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7486 |
From John Murray 20 February [1871]
Summary
A second edition [issue] of Descent may be needed in short time; preparations should be made, and corrections sent to Clowes. Wallace, Mivart, and F. P. Cobbe have been sent copies of both volumes.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 388 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7496 |
From John Murray 23 February [1871]
Summary
Descent publication costs, "including a heavy item of £126 for corrections" have been received. JM can now offer CD 600 guineas for the edition of 2500 copies.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 389 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7507 |
From John Murray 27 February [1871]
Summary
First edition [issue] of Descent is exhausted. Asks CD to send corrections at once for a new printing of at least 1000 copies.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 390 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7519 |
From John Murray 9 March [1871]
Summary
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 John Murray 18 March [1871]
Summary
Second "edition" [of Descent] published this day. Offers CD 800 guineas.
Mentions Wallace’s review in Academy.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 392 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7597 |
From John Murray 20 March [1871]
Summary
Demand [for Descent] is such that JM thinks he will have to print 1000 more copies. Does not want to trouble CD for corrections.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 393 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7604 |
From John Murray 22 March 1871
Summary
Completes payment for 2d issue [of Descent]; has sold 1300 of the 2000 copies printed. Will probably print 2000 more for 3d issue.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 394 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7611 |
From John Murray 12 April [1871]
Summary
Asks CD’s opinion of a request from Loescher of Turin. Thinks Loescher should have named his translator.
Does CD know the name of the Times reviewer?
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 395 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7676 |
From John Murray 10 May 1871
Summary
Offers CD same payment for the 3d issue of Descent as for 2d.
Has bespoke four better drawings of birds in case a 4th issue is needed.
Vanity Fair wants CD’s portrait by Carlo Pellegrini ["Ape"].
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 May 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 398 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7750 |