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From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 333
Summary:

Informs CD third edition of Origin is exhausted. Proposes a new edition. Has CD any changes? Since demand is slowing up, proposes printing only 1250 copies and deferring payment of CD’s share until sales have repaid manufacturing costs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 346
Summary:

Sends sheets of Origin [4th edition] for CD to correct [for 3d German edition?].

Still has 600 copies of Orchids, but deficit reduced to £30.

Undertakes to pay two-thirds of profits of the [fourth] edition of Origin as soon as one-half of the copies are sold.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project