To John Murray 4 March [1868]
Summary
Payment of 400 guineas [Variation royalties] delights CD.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 4 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 f. 36) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5978 |
To John Murray 6 March 1868
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of bill for £420.
Will try to attend Athenaeum meeting to help elect Clowes’s son.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 6 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff. 37–38) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5989 |
From John Murray 3 March [1868]
Summary
JM offers a note for 400 guineas as author’s payment on sale of 1250 copies of 2d issue of Variation.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 357 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5972 |
From John Murray 6 March [1868]
Summary
JM sends note for £420.
Asks CD to use his good offices on behalf of William Clowes’s son who is up for election to Athenaeum.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 358 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5988 |
To John Murray [25? March 1868]
Summary
American publishers will not wait for woodcuts, so asks Murray to have a copy of the reprint sent to Asa Gray. Will call soon to talk about Für Darwin and to hear about sale of latest edition of Origin
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | [25? Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (10 November 2009); PBA Galleries (dealers) (10 May 2012) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6050F |
From Roland Trimen 26 March 1868
Summary
Coloration in moths.
Quotes Achille Guénée on relative proportion of sexes in Phalaenites.
| Author: | Roland Trimen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 81: 76, DAR 85: B61–2, DAR 84.1: 134–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6055 |
From Robert Buist 5 March 1868
Summary
Replies to CD on salmon: the pugnacity of males and the proportions of sexes. [see Descent 1: 308, 2: 3.]
| Author: | Robert Buist |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A17–18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5984 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … B. Cohen. 3 vols. New York: Columbia University Press. 1998. Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Descent : The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. …
From J. J. Weir [before 5] March 1868
Summary
Does not think females give preference to any males. Coloration, pugnacity; cases of use of colour in struggle for existence. [see Descent 1: 395.]
| Author: | John Jenner Weir |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 5] Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A109–12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5985 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … B. Cohen. 3 vols. New York: Columbia University Press. 1998. Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Descent : The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. …
From David Forbes 26 March 1868
Summary
Blushing in South American Indians.
Hairlessness of Aymaras and Quechuas. [See Descent 2: 322–3.]
| Author: | David Forbes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 80: B168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6054 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … B. Cohen. 3 vols. New York: Columbia University Press. 1998. Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Descent : The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. …
| letter | (9) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Buist, Robert | (1) |
| Forbes, David | (1) |
| Trimen, Roland | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Murray, John (b) | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Murray, John (b) | (5) |
| Buist, Robert | (1) |
| Forbes, David | (1) |
| Trimen, Roland | (1) |
| Weir, J. J. | (1) |
