Discusses publication of Descent. Orders copies of vol. 2 sent to Wallace, Mivart, and F. P. Cobbe.
Will attend Athenaeum and vote for RC.
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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.
First edition [issue] of Descent is exhausted. Asks CD to send corrections at once for a new printing of at least 1000 copies.
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.
Demand [for Descent] is such that JM thinks he will have to print 1000 more copies. Does not want to trouble CD for corrections.
Completes payment for 2d issue [of Descent]; has sold 1300 of the 2000 copies printed. Will probably print 2000 more for 3d issue.
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?
Offers CD same payment for the 3d issue of Descent as for 2d.
Has bespoke four better drawings of birds in case a 4th issue is needed.
Vanity Fair wants CD’s portrait by Carlo Pellegrini ["Ape"].
Sends two bills [JM’s notes for payments due to CD] for £420 each for 3d issue of Descent.
On photographic illustrations [for Expression].
Estimates 7s 6d price for a cheap edition of Origin [6th].
The pamphlet [Chauncey Wright’s review of Mivart, see 7940] has been distributed to friends and to the press.
Has corrected last page of index of Origin [6th ed.]. Sends instructions.
Accedes to CD’s request to let Appleton have a set of stereotypes of the 6th English edition of Origin at a little above cost.
JM arranges to pay CD for the latest issue of Descent.
Messrs Clowes have received MS of Expression. JM submits specimen pages for CD’s approval.
R. Cooke has increased the order for heliotypes [for Expression] to 8000. Reimburses CD for cost of artists.
Is convinced that 2000 more copies [of Expression] must be printed without delay in order to meet demand. He therefore asks CD to send his corrections to the printer at once.