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Asks CD’s help in finding original woodcuts for "Voyage of a naturalist" [Journal of researches] for Reinwald.
In doubt about size of printing of the 2d edition of Descent. Profit on 2000 at 12s would be only £250.
New edition of Descent just off the press. Murray feels price must be 9s instead of 12s, if it is to sell. This will reduce profit to almost nil.
Booksellers approve of [9s] price for 2d edition of Descent. 1350 copies were sold at annual sale.
A curious alteration in the reprint of Variation.
V. O. Kovalevsky has paid for the Expression plates.
Still has 400 copies of Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet
and 450 of Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin.
Replies to CD’s various questions and suggestions concerning publication plans for Insectivorous plants.
A set of electros of the woodcuts to Variation was sent to an Italian publisher in 1869, but no reply or payment has been made since then.
Asks whether enclosure [missing] has the correct title of Insectivorous plants.
Sends first copy of Insectivorous plants to CD. Price must be 15s.
Agrees to price Insectivorous plants at 14s.
Has CD quoted a price for stereotype plates to D. Appleton?
CD’s pessimistic view [of prospective sale of Insectivorous plants] is to blame for the small printing. Murray’s printed only 1250 copies and sold 1700. A thousand more have been ordered.
The second printing of 1000 copies [of Insectivorous plants] has sold out. Will print 750 more [3000 in all]. Mudie’s Library and Simpkin & Co. have ordered more copies.
Sends CD specimen pages, with two different type spacings, for Climbing plants.
RC will confer with printer about type, etc., for reprint of Variation.
Only 250 copies remain of [2d ed. of] Descent – will print 1000 more for annual sale.
Expression does not move.
Murray is willing to make same arrangement with D. Appleton for Climbing plants as for Insectivorous plants.
There will be no difficulty about corrections for reprint of Descent, providing new matter fills same space as old.
Giovanni Canestrini should be reminded that before any plates for another of CD’s books can be sent, payment must be made for those already sent.
Sends papers concerned with [copyright?] registration for French and German editions [of Insectivorous plants].
Encloses specimens of type for Variation [2d ed.].
Thinks Climbing plants [2d ed.] had better be kept in type; 1500 copies to be printed, with stereotypes to be made for Appleton.
It would be an advantage to start printing vol. 1 of Variation [2d ed.] at once, if CD can release it. Knotty problem: the number of copies to be printed.