From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles James (Charles) Layton
Date:
24 Nov [1869]
Source of text:
Marshall Rare Books (dealer) (January 2022)
Summary:
CD long anxious for new American edition of Origin to incorporate corrections since 2d ed. [of 1860]; believes such updating has kept English and continental sales high. If Appleton unable to comply, he will ask Asa Gray to find another publisher.
Mentions possible arrangements for U. S. edition of new book [Descent].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project