From John Murray 12 November [1872]
Summary
Price of Expression is 12s.
Sends cheque to pay CD his share of profits on Origin [6th ed.].
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Nov [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 430 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8622 |
To John Murray 11 November 1872
Summary
CD is delighted and astonished at sale of Expression,
and pleased with sale of others, except Descent. He fears a new edition of that work may never be required. Would have liked to bring out a thoroughly revised one.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 11 Nov 1872 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 276–7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8620 |
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- … John Murray, 9 November 1872 . Seven thousand copies of Descent had been printed in 1871; a second edition was published in 1874. Murray may have given CD exact sale figures in a missing enclosure to his letter of 9 November 1872. See letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 February 1872 . See letter from R. F. Cooke, 14 August 1872 . The price …
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| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
