From John Murray 12 February [1868]
Summary
CD’s letter encourages Murray to proceed with a new edition of Variation; corrections will cost £176.
First notice has appeared in Pall Mall Gazette [7 (1868): 555].
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171 : 355 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5869 |
From John Murray 24 February [1868]
Summary
Second issue [of Variation] is ready.
Murray thinks that the Athenæum review was written by J. E. Gray [see 5931].
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 356 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5923 |
To John Murray 9 February [1868]
Summary
Heartily glad for JM’s sake at sale [of Variation]. Thinks JM right to publish a smaller second edition, for "the public will soon find out that it is dull" – though scientifically valuable. The index is excellent. CD is "always greedy" for presentation copies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 180–181) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5854 |
To John Murray 25 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks JM for presentation copies [of Variation]. Sends directions and list.
Has been told positively that hostile review in Athenæum was by Berthold Seemann, to whom he once refused a testimonial.
On the whole, reviews have been very good.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 25 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 182–183) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5931 |
From John Murray 6 February [1868]
Summary
Advance sale of Variation has exhausted the 1500 copies printed. Murray sends note for £300 author’s payment. Wants to print 1250 more immediately.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 354 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5844 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 15 February [1868]
Summary
Is much obliged that WBT will undertake tabulation of sex ratios in racehorses, greyhounds, and cattle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 15 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5879 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier [before 15 February 1868]
Summary
Agrees to help determine the sex ratios in domestic animals.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 15 Feb 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5878 |
To Robert McLachlan 25 February [1868]
Summary
Is obliged for the facts about the hybrids [see 5910], which permit him to reject the view of B. D. Walsh (and H. W. Bates?) that organs play an important part in keeping incipient species distinct.
He has asked John Murray to send RM a copy of Variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert McLachlan |
| Date: | 25 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5934B |
From H. T. Stainton 29 February 1868
Summary
Replies to CD on proportion of sexes in butterflies, coloration of moths, and courtship. Encloses copies of letters on these subjects between HTS, Henry Doubleday, and John Hellins.
| Author: | Henry Tibbats Stainton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 85: B52-3; DAR 86: A16; |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5960 |
To B. D. Walsh 14 February 1868
Summary
Requests entomological data on sexual selection, especially proportions of sexes.
Sends Queries about expression with note: "a great hobby of mine".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5876 |
To J. J. Weir 29 February [1868]
Summary
JJW’s note on birds was one of the most interesting CD has ever received. Asks several questions. CD is puzzled by cases of magpies whose mates were killed but who always immediately found others.
Alexander Wallace denies any effect of colour in sexual selection among Lepidoptera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
| Date: | 29 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5958 |
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To Asa Gray 9 February [1868]
Summary
Asks that Gray forward a letter to J. T. Rothrock. Variation is selling well. Nearly all chapters were at least partially written before Origin was published.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | William Patrick Watson (dealer) (catalogue 19, 2013) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5851F |
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- … John Murray, 22 December [1859] ). In the event, only the first part of the projected work was published, broadly based on the first two chapters of the original manuscript ( Variation ; see Natural selection ). CD had started working on Variation intermittently in 1860; it was published on 30 January 1868 ( Freeman 1977 ). CD began sending out a standard list of queries on expression by December 1866 (see Correspondence vol. 14, letter to B. …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Murray, John (b) | (3) |
| Stainton, H. T. | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| McLachlan, Robert | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
| Murray, John (b) | (5) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| McLachlan, Robert | (1) |
