To John Murray   3 May [1861]

Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.

May 3d

My dear Sir

I am sorry for your sake, as well as my own, for the mistake. I return your Bill & shd be obliged for a new one. I have altered the receipt, whether as altered it will suffice I know not.—1 There were few corrections in the last Edition, though several pages added, yet I am surprised, at so large a reduction of profit, relatively to the last Edition, which since receiving your note, I have calculated.2

Kindly attend to the few points specified in my last note & believe me | My dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin

Endorsement: ‘1861’

1
See the enclosure with the letter to John Murray, 30 April [1861]. Murray had originally calculated CD’s share of the profits on the third edition of Origin to be £480; the revised figure was £372.
2
CD received £636 13s. 4d. in royalties on the second edition of Origin (see ‘Journal’ (Correspondence vol. 9, Appendix II) and Peckham ed. 1959, p. 775).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-3136,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-3136