DCP-LETT-5017A
Summary
Undertakes to pay two-thirds of profits of the [fourth] edition of Origin as soon as one-half of the copies are sold.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Feb [1866] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5017A |
From John Murray 21 February [1866]
Summary
Informs CD third edition of Origin is exhausted. Proposes a new edition. Has CD any changes? Since demand is slowing up, proposes printing only 1250 copies and deferring payment of CD’s share until sales have repaid manufacturing costs.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Feb [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 333 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5014 |
From John Murray 24 February [1866]
Summary
Sends sheets of Origin [4th edition] for CD to correct [for 3d German edition?].
Still has 600 copies of Orchids, but deficit reduced to £30.
Undertakes to pay two-thirds of profits of the [fourth] edition of Origin as soon as one-half of the copies are sold.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Feb [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 346 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5417 |
Matches: 2 hits
To John Murray 22 February [1866]
Summary
CD is pleased [about need for a new edition of Origin] but even more grieved – for it will delay his next book [Variation]. Progress of natural history will make many changes necessary in Origin. Nevertheless, proceeds with 32 more woodcuts for Variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 22 Feb [1866] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 139–142) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5016 |
From Charles James Fox Bunbury to Charles Lyell 3 February 1866
Summary
Discusses Louis Agassiz’s theory of the glaciation of Brazil.
| Author: | Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 3 Feb 1866 |
| Classmark: | F. J. Bunbury ed. 1891–3, Later life 1: 134–6. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4995F |
| letter | (5) |
| Murray, John (b) | (3) |
| Bunbury, C. J. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Murray, John (b) | (4) |
| Bunbury, C. J. F. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
