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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.
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.
Orchids is at last sold out. Settles account.
The Origin [6th ed.] is making good [sales] progress.
Expression is not selling.
Acknowledges CD’s complaint against a paper [by St George Mivart] in the last Quarterly Review [see 9568]. Agrees to print George Darwin’s answer [see 9596].
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.
Asks JM for four copies of his Journal of researches [2d ed.] at wholesale price. Also asks for total number of copies sold.
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.
Asks to be informed whenever more copies of his books are printed, as there may be errors to correct.
Asks how many copies of Origin have been printed "from the first". The number will be "a good puff" when listed in the new edition of Variation.
Thanks for gift [of books requested in 1026]. Sale is a good deal more than he had anticipated.
Asks JM for information on sales of his Journal of researches and to procure for him a copy of the American edition. He is curious to see if the part on slavery has been altered.
Is satisfied with sales of his books.
Did not expect Orchids to sell more than 600 or 700 copies.
Only bad item is Expression, which astonishes him, since it sells well in Germany.
Asks size of printing of Cross and self-fertilisation; thinks 1500 would be ample.
On publishing details for various CD books.
Has no corrections for new issue of Descent [2d ed.].
Questions amount of cheque for profits.
Thanks for accounts which make everything intelligible to him. Since he was glad to have Orchids published at one-half of profits for himself, he believes it would be very shabby to accept JM’s new offer of two-thirds profits. Thinks it would be fairer to both to change to JM’s usual practice with authors [i.e., annual statements of sales, payments based on them, and final accounting when all copies have been sold].
Encloses a cheque for £11.19.9. Will transmit £7.9.4 to Fritz Müller. Thanks for account of the sale of his books, which appears to be in a "lamentable state".
Intends to publish a translation of Ernst Krause’s essay on Dr Erasmus Darwin, with a prefatory notice by himself. Asks JM to decide whether to publish it on commission or on usual two-thirds profit terms. CD incapable of judging chance of its selling.
Though not sanguine about sale [of Erasmus Darwin] it seems fair that if over 1500 copies are sold he should receive two-thirds profit. If JM does not agree, he would prefer publishing on commission or asking Macmillan if they will give him larger profits.