JM will publish [Variation] "coute qui coute", paying CD half the profits.
Thinks he can count on 500 purchases of what he calls the "Pièces Justificatives" of the Origin and will print 750 copies.
His literary friend found it "difficult of digestion".
On final instalment of "Insular floras" [Gard. Chron. (1867): 75]; rejoices at extent of their agreement.
Some criticisms of JDH’s position on geographical affinities, and volcanic islands.
CD agrees to JM’s proposal of half-profits. Thinks it a mistake to print only 750 copies. The agreement on half-profit is for first edition only. CD estimates his book at a higher value than JM does.
First portion of Variation MS has been set up. Murray will not decide on number to be printed until he has read a good portion. The agreement applies only to the first edition.
Is convinced his chapter on man [for Variation] will excite plenty of attention and abuse, which he supposes is as good as praise for selling a book.
On origin of hand-shaking.
Expression: derivation of the term "brown study".
A fragment that may contain information for Expression.
Sends extract from Charma [Essai sur le langage (1846)] on the origin of nodding and shaking the head [See Expression, p. 273 n. 17].
Extract from Seneca’s letters establishes that hiding the face in shame was not a classical gesture.
An extract from Macrobius’ Saturnalia dealing with blushing.
Has marked a page from Adam Bede which may be relevant to CD’s work on expression.