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From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 444
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 446
Summary:

Sends CD a cheque for 68 guineas – his two-thirds share of profit on sale of 2000 copies of 2d edition of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 447
Summary:

JM expresses willingness to publish CD’s Climbing plants [2d ed.].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 449
Summary:

JM proposes to print 1000 copies [of Insectivorous plants].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 May [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 450
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
G. Chiantore
To:
John Murray
Date:
18 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 451
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ludwik Masłowski
To:
John Murray
Date:
25 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 90
Summary:

Has received a confusing set of engravings, with both missing and superfluous illustrations [for Polish translation of Descent].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 210.11: 3
Summary:

Report on sales of Origin, Insectivorous plants, and Climbing plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
20 Nov 1875
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 318–19)
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 478
Summary:

Sends cheques in payment on three of CD’s books.

Proposes to print 500 copies of Insectivorous plants before distributing the type.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 479
Summary:

JM has printed 16250 copies of Origin since 1859.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Louis Grenier
To:
John Murray
Date:
22 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 474
Summary:

Encloses a letter to be forwarded to CD [see 10212].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project