To John Murray 19 February [1871]
Summary
Discusses publication of Descent. Orders copies of vol. 2 sent to Wallace, Mivart, and F. P. Cobbe.
Will attend Athenaeum and vote for RC.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 19 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 280 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7489 |
To John Murray 23 February 1871
Summary
Receipt for payment by John Murray of £630 for the first edition, consisting of 2500 copies, of Descent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 23 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 105 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7509A |
To John Murray 8 March [1871]
Summary
Asks what his profits on the reprints of Descent will be when half have been sold.
Good reviews in Saturday Review and Pall Mall Gazette;
contemptuous one as usual in Athenæum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 8 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 222–3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7555 |
To John Murray 13 March 1871
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 13 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 435 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7577 |
To John Murray 20 March 1871
Summary
Pleased with sum the reprint [of Descent] has produced. Terms of payment accepted.
Thanks JM for Nonconformist [review of Descent, 32 (1871): 240–1].
Would like to see other out-of-way reviews – especially religious.
Other reviews favourable, including Wallace’s [see 7569], which is admirable.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 20 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 250–1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7603 |
To John Murray 21 March 1871
Summary
Is astonished at sale [of Descent]. Will make no additions, but must correct a few misprints and errors [for third issue].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 21 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 f. 252) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7608 |
To John Murray 22 March [1871]
Summary
Has this day sent off corrections for new issue [of Descent]. Asks whether title-page may read "Sixth Thousand".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 22 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42153 ff. 58–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7610 |
To John Murray 23 March 1871
Summary
Amount received from 2d issue of Descent now stands at £840. Would be glad to have 2000 more copies printed because he wants time to collect information for a corrected edition.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 23 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42153 ff. 44–5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7613 |
To John Murray 13 April [1871]
Summary
Has no idea who wrote the Times review [of Descent]. Writer has no knowledge of science and "seems a windbag full of metaphysics & classics".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 13 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 220–1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7680 |
To John Murray 23 April [1871]
Summary
Asks JM to lend him his copy of 1st edition (1806) of Charles Bell’s Anatomy of expression.
JM should tell him when he wants new cheap edition of Origin, so he can arrange his plans and time.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 23 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 240–1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7709 |
To John Murray 10 May [1871]
Summary
CD is perplexed about illustrations for Expression, i.e., whether photographs are better than woodcuts. He thinks photographs, but does not know which process is preferable. Asks JM to inquire.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 10 May [1871] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 278–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7749 |
To John Murray 12 May [1871]
Summary
Will require at least six weeks’ notice before a new edition of Descent has to go to press because of considerable corrections needed.
Thinks cheap edition of Origin is needed, since he could answer objections in it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 12 May [1871] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 244–5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7755 |
To John Murray 27 May [1871]
Summary
Asks JM for final decision about a cheap edition of Origin. Would like to begin soon to revise and answer recent objections.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 27 May [1871] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 287–8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7772 |
To John Murray 3 June [1871]
Summary
Is disappointed at high price, 7s 6d, being considered for the cheap edition of the Origin [6th ed.]. Has been told that, in Lancashire, workmen club together to buy the Origin.
Little chance that Expression will be done this autumn.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 3 June [1871] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 246–7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7798 |
To John Murray 13 July [1871]
Summary
Thanks JM for Quarterly Review. Its "cutting" article [on Descent, 131 (1871): 47–90] is worthy of Mivart’s skill.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 13 July [1871] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 248–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7863 |
To John Murray 17 August [1871]
Summary
Asks JM whether he will publish 750 copies of a pamphlet [Chauncey Wright’s review of Mivart’s Genesis of species, North Am. Rev. 113 (1871): 63–103] at CD’s expense.
Has been ill so cannot say when he will finish new edition of Origin.
Asks about sales and printing of Descent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 17 Aug [1871] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 226–7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7907 |
To John Murray 13 September 1871
Summary
Arrangements for distribution and review of pamphlet [Chauncey Wright’s Darwinism: being an examination of Mr St. G. J. Mivart’s "Genesis of species" (1871)], which CD had reprinted at his own expense.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 13 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 224–5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7940 |
To John Murray 23 September [1871]
Summary
Has been so unwell that he could do absolutely nothing on Origin [6th ed.]. A new chapter seven has cost much labour.
Sorry to hear R. I. Murchison is ill.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 23 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 234–5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7964 |
To John Murray 6 October [1871]
Summary
Has finished seven chapters of revision of Origin [6th ed.] despite poor health. Asks JM’s opinion on a glossary of scientific terms. Encloses text for advertisement.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 6 Oct [1871] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 228–31) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7988 |
To John Murray [1 March 1871]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | [1 Mar 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 437 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9237 |