From John Murray 23 July [1866]
Summary
Will attend to CD’s wishes regarding six presentation copies [of Origin, 4th ed.] for England and America.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 July [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 337 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5164 |
From John Murray 18 July [1866]
Summary
Proposes to delay issue [of 4th ed. of Origin] until November to obtain better market conditions. Now printing 1250 copies.
Explains practice of not cutting pages is due to propensity of English public to read books without buying them.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 July [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 336 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5161 |
To John Murray 15 July [1866]
Summary
4th edition of Origin will soon be bound. Suggests sending copies to scientific periodicals that might notice it. Hopes JM will specify in advertisements that the work is corrected and enlarged. Hopes pages will be cut. Only insanity accounts for this not being done in England.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 15 July [1866] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 145–146) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5155 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 9 July [1866]
Summary
WBT’s fowls’ skulls are being engraved; will see pigeon illustration proofs when he can.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 9 July [1866] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5152 |
From A. R. Wallace 2 July 1866
Summary
Lengthy analysis of sources of misunderstanding of natural selection. Advocacy of Spencer’s term "survival of the fittest" instead of "Natural Selection". ARW urges CD to stress frequency of variations.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 July 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B33–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5140 |
| letter | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Murray, John (b) | (3) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
