Bound copies [of Descent] have been dispatched to CD.
Robert Cooke, JM’s cousin and partner, has been nominated for Athenaeum; asks CD’s support.
Begs CD not to permit any notice by F. P. Cobbe to appear until after next week.
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Bound copies [of Descent] have been dispatched to CD.
Robert Cooke, JM’s cousin and partner, has been nominated for Athenaeum; asks CD’s support.
Begs CD not to permit any notice by F. P. Cobbe to appear until after next week.
Discusses publication of Descent. Orders copies of vol. 2 sent to Wallace, Mivart, and F. P. Cobbe.
Will attend Athenaeum and vote for RC.
A second edition [issue] of Descent may be needed in short time; preparations should be made, and corrections sent to Clowes. Wallace, Mivart, and F. P. Cobbe have been sent copies of both volumes.
Descent publication costs, "including a heavy item of £126 for corrections" have been received. JM can now offer CD 600 guineas for the edition of 2500 copies.
Receipt for payment by John Murray of £630 for the first edition, consisting of 2500 copies, of Descent.
First edition [issue] of Descent is exhausted. Asks CD to send corrections at once for a new printing of at least 1000 copies.
Asks what his profits on the reprints of Descent will be when half have been sold.
Good reviews in Saturday Review and Pall Mall Gazette;
contemptuous one as usual in Athenæum.
JM will print 2000 more copies of Descent as a second edition [issue]. Profits should be large as expenses are small.
Pleased about sale and new issue [of Descent]. Discusses presentation copies.
Second "edition" [of Descent] published this day. Offers CD 800 guineas.
Mentions Wallace’s review in Academy.
Pleased with sum the reprint [of Descent] has produced. Terms of payment accepted.
Thanks JM for Nonconformist [review of Descent, 32 (1871): 240–1].
Would like to see other out-of-way reviews – especially religious.
Other reviews favourable, including Wallace’s [see 7569], which is admirable.
Demand [for Descent] is such that JM thinks he will have to print 1000 more copies. Does not want to trouble CD for corrections.
Is astonished at sale [of Descent]. Will make no additions, but must correct a few misprints and errors [for third issue].
Has this day sent off corrections for new issue [of Descent]. Asks whether title-page may read "Sixth Thousand".
Completes payment for 2d issue [of Descent]; has sold 1300 of the 2000 copies printed. Will probably print 2000 more for 3d issue.
Amount received from 2d issue of Descent now stands at £840. Would be glad to have 2000 more copies printed because he wants time to collect information for a corrected edition.
Asks CD’s opinion of a request from Loescher of Turin. Thinks Loescher should have named his translator.
Does CD know the name of the Times reviewer?
Has no idea who wrote the Times review [of Descent]. Writer has no knowledge of science and "seems a windbag full of metaphysics & classics".
Asks JM to lend him his copy of 1st edition (1806) of Charles Bell’s Anatomy of expression.
JM should tell him when he wants new cheap edition of Origin, so he can arrange his plans and time.
CD is perplexed about illustrations for Expression, i.e., whether photographs are better than woodcuts. He thinks photographs, but does not know which process is preferable. Asks JM to inquire.