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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
4 Sept [1870]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 211)
Summary:

Variation is a much better looking volume than Origin due to quality of paper and binding. Hopes JM will attend to this point in Descent. Printers have sent "splendid lot" of proofs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
26 Sept 1870
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 214–17)
Summary:

Wants sheets [of Descent] for foreign editions. Asks JM to determine price to be charged for the stereotypes of 62 cuts. Dallas would be excellent for the index but must be "civilly warned" not to delay. Encloses memo on the index.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
29 Sept [1870]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 212–13)
Summary:

CD did not promise Appleton stereotypes of text [of Descent]; only of cuts.

Wishes to know which passage JM thought "coarse". Remembers only a quotation from John Hunter on courtship of female being required "to give her desires" [Descent 1: 273]. He fancied a quotation rendered the sentence less coarse.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 378
Summary:

Various arrangements concerning the publication of Descent. "It will cause men to prick up [their] ears – & to elevate their eyebrows." JM thinks he will venture to print 2500 copies.

Suggests CD tone down as possibly indelicate a passage on proportion of advances made by the two sexes in animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project