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From John Murray   25 October [1866]1

50A Albemarle St. | W.

Oct 25

My Dear Sir

Under the circumstances considering Mess. T & F’s position the best course for me to pursue perhaps is to ask D Appletons Co. agent here if he is willing to take the 250 copies new Edn. as proposed— if not agreed to we must trust to a certain demand for single copies from the US2

Had I contemplated sending away 250 copies, I wd have printed more than 1250 for this Editn 3

My Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | John Murray

I thank you for your kind & considerate letter of Oct 204

Ch Darwin Esq

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to John Murray, 23 October [1866].
2
Murray refers to the American publishing firms Ticknor & Fields and D. Appleton & Co. CD had conveyed Asa Gray’s advice that Murray send copies of the fourth edition of Origin for the American market (see letter to John Murray, 23 October [1866] and n. 2).
3
According to the publisher’s ledger, 1500 copies of the fourth edition of Origin were printed (see Peckham ed. 1959, p. 776).
4
No letter from CD bearing this date has been found.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-5255,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-5255