Murray, John (b) to Darwin, C. R.
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JM offers a note for 400 guineas as author's payment on sale of 1250 copies of 2d issue of Variation.
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Mar. 3
My Dear Sir
On making up the accounts of expences incurred in the Second Edition of your ``Animals & Plants'' Under Domestication''— I find that the sale of 1250 copies, of wch the Edition consists, will enable me to offer you for it, the sum of Four Hundred Guineas, by note at 4 months from the day of publication.
It is right to tell you that in this calculation I have added to the
expences of the 2
I remain My Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | John Murray
Charles Darwin Esq
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The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from John Murray, 24 February [1868]. - +
- f2 5972.f2
Murray refers to the second printing of the first edition of Variation; the initial print run of 1500 copies was sold within a month (see letter from John Murray, 6 February [1868]). Although the title pages of the two printings are identical, several corrections and additions were incorporated into the second printing (see Freeman 1967, pp. 122--3). CD recorded a payment of £420 from Murray on 1 July 1868 in his Account books--banking account (Down House MS).