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From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 353
Summary:

CD’s anxiety about the index [of Variation] will be relieved somewhat when he learns it has at last been set up.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 354
Summary:

Advance sale of Variation has exhausted the 1500 copies printed. Murray sends note for £300 author’s payment. Wants to print 1250 more immediately.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 171 : 355
Summary:

CD’s letter encourages Murray to proceed with a new edition of Variation; corrections will cost £176.

First notice has appeared in Pall Mall Gazette [7 (1868): 555].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 356
Summary:

Second issue [of Variation] is ready.

Murray thinks that the Athenæum review was written by J. E. Gray [see 5931].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 357
Summary:

JM offers a note for 400 guineas as author’s payment on sale of 1250 copies of 2d issue of Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 358
Summary:

JM sends note for £420.

Asks CD to use his good offices on behalf of William Clowes’s son who is up for election to Athenaeum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 May [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 359
Summary:

Will be glad to see Miss Wedgwood’s MS on Wesley.

The clichés of Fritz Müller’s work [Für Darwin] have arrived.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 360
Summary:

JM will send another copy of Variation to B. D. Walsh.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 361
Summary:

Lost copy of Variation sent to B. D. Walsh has been traced as far as New York.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project