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DCP-LETT-1524

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
24 July [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 31
Summary:

Asks JM to forward letter [1525] to Francis Galton "the author of the very interesting volume" Murray recently published.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2506

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
15 Oct [1859]
Source of text:
DAR R 143 (with R. F. Cooke correspondence)
Summary:

Discusses presentation copies [of the Origin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3494

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
4 Apr [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 434
Summary:

Discusses proposed publication of Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5555

From:
Tendler & Co.
To:
John Murray
Date:
29 May 1867
Source of text:
DAR 178: 87
Summary:

Seek permission to produce a translation of Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7031

From:
James Leask Sinclair
To:
John Murray
Date:
22 Dec 1869
Source of text:
DAR 177: 172
Summary:

Encloses memorandum for CD concerning JLS’s career and the development of his transformist views.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7050

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray; John Murray
Date:
[after 1 July 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 273
Summary:

Wants to keep "The origin of man" as first part of title of book.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7489

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
19 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 280
Summary:

Discusses publication of Descent. Orders copies of vol. 2 sent to Wallace, Mivart, and F. P. Cobbe.

Will attend Athenaeum and vote for RC.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7509A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
23 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 249: 105
Summary:

Receipt for payment by John Murray of £630 for the first edition, consisting of 2500 copies, of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9237

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[1 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 437
Summary:

Discusses new edition of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7577

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
13 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 143: 435
Summary:

Pleased about sale and new issue [of Descent]. Discusses presentation copies.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8187

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
27 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 283
Summary:

Has corrected last page of index of Origin [6th ed.]. Sends instructions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8188

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
30 Jan 1872
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 272–3)
Summary:

Requests that JM make stereotype plates of 6th edition of Origin available to D. Appleton. This will be last edition and CD is "extremely anxious" to spread his views.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8897

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
4 May [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 436
Summary:

Asks Murray not to announce Cross and self-fertilisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9981

From:
G. Chiantore
To:
John Murray
Date:
18 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 451
Summary:

Editor of L’Unione, Turin, would publish an Italian edition of Variation if the clichés of the English edition were made available at not more than £10.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10092

From:
Ludwik Masłowski
To:
John Murray
Date:
25 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 90
Summary:

Has received a confusing set of engravings, with both missing and superfluous illustrations [for Polish translation of Descent].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10267

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
20 Nov 1875
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 318–19)
Summary:

Greatly pleased at sale [of Climbing plants].

Points out a discrepancy in their records of copies of Origin printed.

500 more copies of Insectivorous plants should last forever.

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DCP-LETT-10211

From:
Louis Grenier
To:
John Murray
Date:
22 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 474
Summary:

Encloses a letter to be forwarded to CD [see 10212].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11222

From:
Georg Michael Asher
To:
John Murray
Date:
1 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 159: 116
Summary:

Describes case of two varieties of Russian wheat, the kubanka (or White Turkish) and the saxonka, which grow side by side with no intermediate varieties. As kubanka gradually yields place to saxonka, thinks an unusual tendency to jumping variation [saltation] operates; suggests CD urge some young botanist to investigate [see ML 2: 419–22].

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DCP-LETT-11712A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
1 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 176
Summary:

Encloses a cheque for £11.19.9. Will transmit £7.9.4 to Fritz Müller. Thanks for account of the sale of his books, which appears to be in a "lamentable state".

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