To John Murray [1–3 February 1869]
Summary
Asks JM to grant permission for a French translation of his "Naturalist’s voyage" [Journal of researches].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | [1–3 Feb 1869] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 192–193) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6596 |
To R. F. Cooke 9 March [1869]
Summary
Suggests best form of lettering for spine of Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 9 Mar [1869] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 198–199) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6648 |
To John Murray [after 18 September 1869]
Summary
Wishes JM’s new periodical [the Academy] could have been a weekly so it might kill the Athenæum by a lingering death.
Has drafted a piece [about Descent] but is not pleased with it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | [after 18 Sept 1869] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42153 ff. 39–40) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6900 |
To John Murray 29 April [1869]
Summary
Thanks JM for Quarterly Review. A. R. Wallace’s article inimitably good – and a triumph that it appears where it will make B[ishop] of O[xford] and Owen gnash their teeth.
Delighted at the sale of F. Müller’s book.
Thinks he has brought Origin up to "present standard of science" [5th ed. (June 1869)].
Slow progress on Descent.
His horse rolled over him, but he is recovering rapidly.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 29 Apr [1869] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 201–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6718 |
To John Murray 8 November [1869]
Summary
Masson et Fils have brought out a third French edition [of Origin] without informing CD and without the advantage of the corrections of the 4th and 5th English editions. For this and other reasons CD wants to give translation rights for the 5th English edition to C. Reinwald.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 8 Nov [1869] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 205–6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6977 |
To Fritz Müller 1 December [1869]
Summary
Role of humming-birds in plant fertilisation.
Alexander Agassiz has visited Down.
Sales of Facts and arguments for Darwin.
Encloses copy of T. H. Farrer letter [7015] and observations on the self-sterility of Eschscholzia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 1 Dec [1869] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 31) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7018 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … John Murray, 17 November 1869 . Murray was the publisher of Dallas trans. 1869. Adolf Bernhard Meyer had sent CD his German translation ( Wallace 1869c ) of Alfred Russel Wallace’s The Malay Archipelago: the land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise ( Wallace 1869a ). See letter from A. B. …
To J. D. Hooker 13 November [1869]
Summary
Congratulates JDH on his becoming a C.B.
Hard at work on sexual selection – weary of everlasting males and females, cocks and hens.
Has read J. H. Stirling vs Huxley on protoplasm [As regards protoplasm (1869)]
and E. B. Tylor on survival of old thoughts in modern civilisation.
Bentham’s Linnean Society [Presidential] Address [see 6793] is worth its weight in gold in making converts. C. J. F. Bunbury is impressed by it.
Likes JDH’s review of K. F. Schimper’s work [Paléontologie végétale, in Nature 1 (1869): 48].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 Nov [1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 156–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6985 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … John Murray. 1859. Risk, James C. 1972. The history of the Order of the Bath and its insignia. London: Spink & Son. Schimper, Wilhelm Philipp. 1869–74. Traité de paléontologie végétale: ou, la flore du monde primitif dans ses rapports avec les formations géologiques et la flore du monde actuel. 3 vols. and atlas. Paris: J. B. …
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| Murray, John (b) | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
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