To Ernst Krause 10 November 1879
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
Nov. 10th 1879
My dear Sir
I write a line to thank you for your note & to say that I have heard from Murray that the Autotype Coy had printed off only a few copies, so that the loss will not be great.— Murray charges only what the Autotype Coy. charge the public, so he makes no profit & it is quite fair that he shd. insist on prepayment.—1 An Italian publisher never paid for the cliches of my Variation under Domestication, & he wd. have lost the whole sum, had I not taken the loss on my own shoulders.2
I was when I wrote rather angry, as I had taken the responsibility of Murray giving the order to the Autotype Coy, but it is all over now. I will send you a copy of the English Edit. of the Life, as soon as it appears, & I do not know why it has not already appeared.3
My dear Sir | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Only a few copies of the photographs [for German edition of Erasmus Darwin] had been printed, so loss will not be great. CD was rather angry when he wrote [12291] "but it is all over now".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12304
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- The Huntington Library (HM 36196)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12304,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12304.xml