To John Murray   20 [June 1862]1

My dear Sir

One word to make clear (as you are so busy) that it is not at all certain that cuts are wanted by an American Publisher;2 & secondly that I fixed £10 for price for M. Scheweizerbart.—3

Hearty thanks for the 3 cuts for A. Gray4

C. Darwin

Down— 20th— Please remember that M. Scheweizerbart is anxiously wishing for the Electros of all the cuts.—

1
Dated by the relationship to other letters in May and June 1862 between CD and John Murray and CD and Asa Gray (see nn. 2–4, below).
2
CD refers to the possibility of an American edition of Orchids (see letter from Asa Gray, 18 May 1862, and letter to John Murray, 13 June [1862]).
3
Christian Friedrich Schweizerbart wished to publish a German edition of Orchids; CD had told him that he should pay Murray £10 for electrotype plates of the woodcuts from the English edition, but he subsequently told Murray that he regretted not having asked for more (see letter from E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 7 June 1862, and letter to John Murray, 13 June [1862]).
4
Asa Gray had asked CD whether he could use a number of the illustrations from Orchids for a review of the work (see letter from Asa Gray, 18 May 1862).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-3615,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-3615