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DCP-LETT-6596

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[1–3 Feb 1869]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 192–193)
Summary:

Asks JM to grant permission for a French translation of his "Naturalist’s voyage" [Journal of researches].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6597

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 363
Summary:

Gives consent, which is unnecessary because term of protection has expired, for French translation of Journal of researches.

Is at a loss to know how many copies of F. Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin to print.

The printer is ready for copy for a new "edition" of Variation. [Presumably another issue. 2d edition did not appear until 1875.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6648

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
9 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 198–199)
Summary:

Suggests best form of lettering for spine of Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6715

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Apr [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 368
Summary:

Has sold 400 copies of Facts and arguments for Darwin. It is a poor time for bookselling.

Last Quarterly Review has best exposition of Darwinism he has met with [A. R. Wallace, "Geological climates, and origin of species", Q. Rev. 126 (1869): 359–94].

Proposes to print 2000 copies of a new [5th] edition of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6718

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
29 Apr [1869]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 201–2)
Summary:

Thanks JM for Quarterly Review. A. R. Wallace’s article inimitably good – and a triumph that it appears where it will make B[ishop] of O[xford] and Owen gnash their teeth.

Delighted at the sale of F. Müller’s book.

Thinks he has brought Origin up to "present standard of science" [5th ed. (June 1869)].

Slow progress on Descent.

His horse rolled over him, but he is recovering rapidly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6897

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 371
Summary:

JM is about to start a new monthly literary review [the Academy]. Would like to publish in first number a short notice of the new work upon which CD is engaged [Descent].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6900

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[after 18 Sept 1869]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42153 ff. 39–40)
Summary:

Wishes JM’s new periodical [the Academy] could have been a weekly so it might kill the Athenæum by a lingering death.

Has drafted a piece [about Descent] but is not pleased with it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6977

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
8 Nov [1869]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 205–6)
Summary:

Masson et Fils have brought out a third French edition [of Origin] without informing CD and without the advantage of the corrections of the 4th and 5th English editions. For this and other reasons CD wants to give translation rights for the 5th English edition to C. Reinwald.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6978

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 373
Summary:

JM advises CD regarding his relations with Masson, the French publisher of the Origin [1866], and the possibility of Reinwald’s publishing a translation of the 5th edition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6992

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 374
Summary:

JM reports sales of Facts and arguments for Darwin, Variation, and Origin [5th ed.].

Sends best wishes for success in putting down "Parisian blasphemers".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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