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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
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.
The reception of Expression has exceeded even JM’s expectations; 5267 copies were sold at the annual sale. CD’s modesty about the work had misled him about its probable sale.
Price of Expression is 12s.
Sends cheque to pay CD his share of profits on Origin [6th ed.].
Encloses cheque for 1000 guineas, CD’s share of profits on first 7000 copies of Expression.
Asks Murray not to announce Cross and self-fertilisation.
Sends CD an account that has the novelty of having a balance against CD.
Acknowledges CD’s cheque.
Sends CD cheque for profits on Orchids and a statement of stock on hand of CD’s works [missing].
Origin and Expression sales are stagnant.
Discusses new edition of Descent.
Orchids is at last sold out. Settles account.
The Origin [6th ed.] is making good [sales] progress.
Expression is not selling.
Statement of stock on hand of CD’s works.
Expression, curiously, at a dead stand-still.
JM expresses his willingness to publish a new edition of Variation whenever CD revises it.
Descent [2d ed.] has not sold much since the annual sale – 1300 copies altogether.
Sends CD a cheque for 68 guineas – his two-thirds share of profit on sale of 2000 copies of 2d edition of Descent.
JM expresses willingness to publish CD’s Climbing plants [2d ed.].
JM proposes to print 1000 copies [of Insectivorous plants].
JM agrees to raise number of first printing [of Insectivorous plants] to 1250 if CD will wait for his share of profits until sales reach 750 or 800.
Editor of L’Unione, Turin, would publish an Italian edition of Variation if the clichés of the English edition were made available at not more than £10.
Greatly pleased at sale [of Climbing plants].
Points out a discrepancy in their records of copies of Origin printed.
500 more copies of Insectivorous plants should last forever.
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.
Receipt for payment by John Murray of £630 for the first edition, consisting of 2500 copies, of Descent.
Requests that JM make stereotype plates of 6th edition of Origin available to D. Appleton. This will be last edition and CD is "extremely anxious" to spread his views.
