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To Charles Layton 24 November [1869]
Summary
CD long anxious for new American edition of Origin to incorporate corrections since 2d ed. [of 1860]; believes such updating has kept English and continental sales high. If Appleton unable to comply, he will ask Asa Gray to find another publisher.
Mentions possible arrangements for U. S. edition of new book [Descent].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles James (Charles) Layton |
| Date: | 24 Nov [1869] |
| Classmark: | Marshall Rare Books (dealer) (January 2022) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7007 |
To Charles Layton 26 November [1869]
Summary
The 5th edition of Origin was printed some months previously and stereotypes cannot be supplied.
If Appletons will reprint the 5th edition of Origin in America, he pledges to supply stereotypes, if possible, or the sheets as printed if not, of his new book (Descent).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles James (Charles) Layton |
| Date: | 26 Nov [1869] |
| Classmark: | Bonhams, New York (dealers) (13 June 2019, lot 5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7012F |
Addressee
| Layton, Charles | (2) |
Date
| 1869 | (2) |
