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DCP-LETT-5016

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
22 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 139–142)
Summary:

CD is pleased [about need for a new edition of Origin] but even more grieved – for it will delay his next book [Variation]. Progress of natural history will make many changes necessary in Origin. Nevertheless, proceeds with 32 more woodcuts for Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5103

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
28 May [1866]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 143–144)
Summary:

Has corrected and improved Origin.

Now hopes to make real progress [on Variation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5155

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
15 July [1866]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 145–146)
Summary:

4th edition of Origin will soon be bound. Suggests sending copies to scientific periodicals that might notice it. Hopes JM will specify in advertisements that the work is corrected and enlarged. Hopes pages will be cut. Only insanity accounts for this not being done in England.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5245

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
16 Oct [1866]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 147–148)
Summary:

Arrangements for woodcuts [in Variation]. Hopes to be ready to print early in 1867.

Encloses letter from Asa Gray [5160] about Appleton’s refusal to alter their plates for a new edition of Origin.

CD asks JM to consider Gray’s plan to have the English edition compete with the American.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5253

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
23 Oct [1866]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 151–152)
Summary:

A letter from Asa Gray informs CD that Ticknor & Fields will not publish a new edition of Origin to compete with Appleton’s unrevised edition. They recommend sending copies of the English edition for the American market.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5314F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
21 and 22 Dec 1866
Source of text:
Herb Sewell (private collection)
Summary:

Submits the MS of Variation, all excepting the section on Man.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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