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John Murray

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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…

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  • … Murray decided on a retail price of 14 s ., selling to the trade at 9 s .6 d . a copy ( …
  • … stock of Origin  was sold on the first day of his trade sale – Mudie’s lending library took 500 …
  • … by John Murray.The pamphlets were not primarily for sale but to advertise and circulate to reviewers …
  • … an edition of 2000 ( Letter 8575 ), but after his autumn sale he wrote,  ‘The modest way in wch …
  • … that only 4000 plates had so far been delivered: ‘The Trade & public will be dissatisfied, but …
  • … (29 June [1875] Letter 10035 ). When the book went on sale, Robert Cooke wrote, ‘You took such a …
  • … but Robert Cooke persuaded him to wait for Murray’s autumn sale ( Letters 13261 ,  13265 ). An …
  • … as usual, most surprised: ‘I am extremely pleased at the sale of my book and utterly astonished’ ( …
  • … his last letters to his publisher, after Murray’s annual sale in the autumn of 1881, Darwin …

Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson

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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…

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  • … monstrous and demoniacal.’ [ f.150v p.8f ] “The trade from Bahia might be very extensive in …
  • … which would doubtless produce a steady breeze of the trade wind – and constant fair weather about …
  • … which I have no doubt of making an unheard of fortune by the sale of licenses to the Emperor &c …
  • … too Southward of West (or toward the region of the steady trade winds) from the Northern side of …
  • … we were clear of these Low Islands – we got into a steady trade wind such as we had enjoyed, before …
  • … winds. Singular interruptions to the regularity of the trade wind, occur among all the …
  • … also that – at Otaheite – that the “steadiness of the trade winds” which stuck to us all the way …
  • … long swell resulting from the prevalence of the S.E. y trade winds – it is continually maintained …
  • … him from the Borneot Sultans and Rajahs – (after the slave trade had been abolished by the British …
  • … who has during many years commanded ships employed in the trade between London and Hobarton. In June …
  • … course for the Seychelles – but just before entering the trade winds, changed that, for Christmas …
  • … to send the Mary (a ship of his employed in the country trade) with a native crew to take me on. I …
  • … the view of cultivating spice and establishing a regular trade (instead of an occasional one) with …
  • … grant of Settlement on the Poggy Islands “for purposes of trade and cultivation” with authority to …
  • … Settling on the Cocos, and entering fully into the pepper trade as abovementioned – they were even …
  • … the one he wanted – the Mary – employed in the country trade by his agents in Batavia was in Bombay …
  • … my friends – but especially to Mr Ross – so soon as the sale of my book had been effected so far as …
  • … imagining that he might derive pecuniary advantage from the trade proposed to be carried on by Mr R …
  • … as much as they wanted for their own use – but none for sale to strangers or any other persons …
  • … [illeg]) as dispatch vessel and conveyor for the coasting trade (having originally been a French …
  • … bye. As for Turtle, Mr Ross never had nor has carried for sale to any place – a single turtle – in …
  • … by the current far to the N.W. of it – when the S.E. trade wind set in strong and then finding her …
  • … parents removed to London – where she further learned the trade of glovemaking by which after the …
  • … might catch fish and turtle for their own use – but the sale of turtle to shipping – and the immense …
  • … halfpenny per lb all to be deducted from the net proceeds of sale. “From my …
  • … – that [ f.230r p.163 ] was to be expected – the sale of the animals being monopolized by Mr …
  • … with the exception of now and then a ship from England the trade was in the hands of the latter and …
  • … the peace commanded merchants vessels in the Mediterranean trade (The former chief officer going out …

1.20 Leopold Flameng etching, after Collier

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< Back to Introduction Almost as soon as Collier’s portrait of Darwin was put on display at the Linnean Society in 1882, requests for permission to reproduce it flooded in, from book and print publishers. Collier himself often felt, with some…

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  • … that were produced for illustrated publications harmed the sale of the one print he had approved – …
  • … Hunt was later published, with the stamp of the Fine Art Trade Guild. Impressions in the National …

Alfred Russel Wallace

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Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and evolutionary theory to spiritualism and politics. He was born in 1823 in Usk, a small town in south-east Wales, and attended a grammar school in Hertford. At the…

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  • … At the age of 13, he was forced to leave school and enter a trade because of financial hardship. He …
  • … supporting himself through writing, lecturing, and the sale of specimens. He quickly established …

3.3 Maull and Polyblank photo 2

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< Back to Introduction Despite the difficulties that arose in relation to Maull and Polyblank’s first photograph of Darwin, another one was produced, this time showing him in three-quarter view. It was evidently not taken at the same session as the…

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  • … at Down House. There are two handwritten notes on the trade label on the back of the frame, alluding …
  • … sought Charles’s agreement to authorise open commercial sale of this photograph by Maull and …

The writing of "Origin"

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From a quiet rural existence at Down in Kent, filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on the transmutation of species, Darwin was jolted into action in 1858 by the arrival of an unexpected letter (no longer extant) from Alfred Russel Wallace outlining a…

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  • … air of such success as it has met with; I do not mean the sale, but the impression it has made on …
  • … to John Murray, 2 December [1859] ). At Murray’s trade sale of 22 November, orders for  …

Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest

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The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…

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  • … it does not do to talk about it, which no doubt promotes the sale’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 26 …
  • … wrote to Murray on 20 March 1871 , ‘It is quite a grand trade to be a scientific man.’ …

Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin

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The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…

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  • … air of such success as it has met with; I do not mean the sale, but the impression it has made on …
  • … [1859] ). A best-seller At Murray’s trade sale of 22 November, orders for  Origin …

Darwin’s reading notebooks

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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…

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  • … Gosses. C t . of Devonshire [Gosse 1853] Lady Sale Affganihtan (?) [Sale 1843] …
  • … With a chapter on wool, and   history of the wool trade . Glasgow.  *119: 17v. …
  • … history of North   Carolina; with an account of the trade, manners, and customs   of the …
  • … with the manners and customs of the   inhabitants, their trade . Translated from the Danish. …
  • … in DAR 71: 31–4.]  *119: 20v., 21; 119: 19a Sale, Florentia, Lady. 1843.  A journal of …

Cross and self fertilisation

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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…

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  • …  years copies will be occasionally sold. Judging from the Sale of my former books and from supposing …
  • … copies of Cross and self fertilisation at his annual trade sale dinner. Recipients of …

Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?

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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . .  What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…

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  • … as to its probable reception,’ he wrote the day after the trade sale, 'I had not made allowance …
  • … ). Among those who tried in vain to find a copy for sale was Frances Power Cobbe, who wrote to thank …

Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year

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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…

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  • … not use the libel law or even allege ‘specific injury in trade or profession’. He recognised the …
  • … have been included in Lubbock’s marriage settlements, the sale was agreed in April for £300 ( …
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