To John Murray [after 18 September 1869]
Summary
Wishes JM’s new periodical [the Academy] could have been a weekly so it might kill the Athenæum by a lingering death.
Has drafted a piece [about Descent] but is not pleased with it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | [after 18 Sept 1869] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42153 ff. 39–40) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6900 |
To John Murray 8 November [1869]
Summary
Masson et Fils have brought out a third French edition [of Origin] without informing CD and without the advantage of the corrections of the 4th and 5th English editions. For this and other reasons CD wants to give translation rights for the 5th English edition to C. Reinwald.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 8 Nov [1869] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 205–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6977 |
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 James Leask Sinclair to John Murray 22 December 1869
Summary
Encloses memorandum for CD concerning JLS’s career and the development of his transformist views.
Author: | James Leask Sinclair |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 22 Dec 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 172 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7031 |
To John Murray [1–3 February 1869]
Summary
Asks JM to grant permission for a French translation of his "Naturalist’s voyage" [Journal of researches].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | [1–3 Feb 1869] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 192–193) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6596 |
From John Murray 3 February [1869]
Summary
Gives consent, which is unnecessary because term of protection has expired, for French translation of Journal of researches.
Is at a loss to know how many copies of F. Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin to print.
The printer is ready for copy for a new "edition" of Variation. [Presumably another issue. 2d edition did not appear until 1875.]
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Feb [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 363 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6597 |
To R. F. Cooke 9 March [1869]
Summary
Suggests best form of lettering for spine of Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 9 Mar [1869] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 198–199) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6648 |
From John Murray 28 April [1869]
Summary
Has sold 400 copies of Facts and arguments for Darwin. It is a poor time for bookselling.
Last Quarterly Review has best exposition of Darwinism he has met with [A. R. Wallace, "Geological climates, and origin of species", Q. Rev. 126 (1869): 359–94].
Proposes to print 2000 copies of a new [5th] edition of Origin.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Apr [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 368 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6715 |
To John Murray 29 April [1869]
Summary
Thanks JM for Quarterly Review. A. R. Wallace’s article inimitably good – and a triumph that it appears where it will make B[ishop] of O[xford] and Owen gnash their teeth.
Delighted at the sale of F. Müller’s book.
Thinks he has brought Origin up to "present standard of science" [5th ed. (June 1869)].
Slow progress on Descent.
His horse rolled over him, but he is recovering rapidly.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 29 Apr [1869] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 201–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6718 |
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 |
letter | (11) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Murray, John (b) | (5) |
Sinclair, J. L. | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (6) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Murray, John (b) | (11) |
Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
Sinclair, J. L. | (1) |