To John Murray 9 January [1868]
Summary
CD exasperated by Dallas’ delay in finishing index [for Variation]. "I am prepared to throw the Index overboard."
Thinks JM should reconsider publishing a translation of Brehm’s Thierleben. It is excellent and would "sell largely".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 9 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 178–179) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5781 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
To John Murray 13 April [1868]
Summary
Asks JM to send Variation to G. Boccardo in Italy.
Sends title (suggested by Lyell) for translation of Fritz Müller’s Für Darwin (which Dallas is translating). CD does not wish to go to great expense in advertising it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 13 Apr [1868] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 184–185) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6114 |
To John Murray 14 April [1868]
Summary
About the advertising and title of a book [the translation of Fritz Müller’s Für Darwin, see 6114].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 14 Apr [1868] |
Classmark: | RR Auction (dealers) (June 2006) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6119A |
To John Murray 25 May 1868
Summary
Asks JM to consider publishing a MS on John Wesley by CD’s niece, Frances Julia Wedgwood [John Wesley and the evangelical reaction of the eighteenth century (1870)].
Has received clean sheets for Italian translation [of Variation?].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 25 May 1868 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.186–189) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6207 |
To John Murray 16 September [1868]
Summary
B. D. Walsh has not received his copy of Variation. Several other foreign correspondents have similar complaints.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 16 Sept [1868] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.190–191) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6369 |
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