From J. J. Moulinié 25 November 1867
Geneva
25th Nov. 1867.
Dear Sir,
I am happy to inform you that I have last week forwarded to my Editor in Paris, the end of the copy of the first volume.1 I am actually expecting the first proofs of the Eigth chapter, and conjecture, for I have not yet received them, that the six first chapters must now be printed and finished, for I have long ago, given the signature for press for them.
As for what concerns the publishing of the first volume separately, I must leave that to your own decision, being a far more competent judge than I can be, of what may be most convenient.2 Unless there be peculiar and important motives to do otherwise, I think that in a general manner, it is perhaps better, when it can be done, to publish a work complete, and lay at once the whole subject before the reader, However, what you will decide on the matter, will be done.
I remain, my dear Sir your’s | very respectfully | J J Moulinié
P.S. The french publisher at Paris is: Mr. C. Reinwald, Libraire-Editeur, 15, rue des Saints-Pères.3
Footnotes
Bibliography
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. 2d edition. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
First volume of Variation has been translated. He does not support CD’s suggestion that the two volumes might be published separately.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5697
- From
- Jean Jacques Moulinié
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Geneva
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 269
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5697,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5697.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 15