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DCP-LETT-5155

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
15 July [1866]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 145–146)
Summary:

4th edition of Origin will soon be bound. Suggests sending copies to scientific periodicals that might notice it. Hopes JM will specify in advertisements that the work is corrected and enlarged. Hopes pages will be cut. Only insanity accounts for this not being done in England.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5161

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 July [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 336
Summary:

Proposes to delay issue [of 4th ed. of Origin] until November to obtain better market conditions. Now printing 1250 copies.

Explains practice of not cutting pages is due to propensity of English public to read books without buying them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5164

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 July [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 337
Summary:

Will attend to CD’s wishes regarding six presentation copies [of Origin, 4th ed.] for England and America.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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