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To Smith, Elder & Co   30 October 1875

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Oct 30th 1875.

Dear Sir

I beg leave to acknowledge & thank you for 2£"8s"10d, being half Profits on sale of 2d. Edit of Coral Reefs up to June 30th.1

I have received this cheque with infinite satisfaction, for I have gone on fearing that the publication of the 2d. Edit, might have caused you actual loss.—2

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

To | Messrs. Smith & Elder

1
An entry in CD’s Account books–banking account (Down House MS) for 23 November 1875 records the receipt of £2 8s. 10d. for Coral reefs 2d ed.; no earlier entry for the same amount has been found.
2
CD had approached Smith, Elder & Co to publish a new edition of Coral reefs, but worried that they might not want to undertake the risk of producing the edition (see Correspondence vol. 21, letter to Smith, Elder & Co, 17 December [1873]). Coral reefs 2d ed. was published in June 1874 (Publishers’ circular, 1 July 1874, p. 420).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 Kent.] before del ‘Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10233,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10233