From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
13 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 143: 435
Summary:
Pleased about sale and new issue [of Descent]. Discusses presentation copies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Pleased about sale and new issue [of Descent]. Discusses presentation copies.
Discusses new edition of Descent.
JM will print 2000 more copies of Descent as a second edition [issue]. Profits should be large as expenses are small.
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.