From John Murray   28 April [1869]1

50, Albemarle St. | W.

Ap. 28

My Dear Sir

It appears that I have sold 400 copies of Muller out of 1000 printed.2 It is a very bad time for Bookselling, this—indeed for every kind of business. I was sorry to hear you had met with an accident— Did you get the last Quarterly? It seems to me the best exposition of the Darwinian Theory I have met with3

I propose to print 2000 copies of the new Edition of Origin of Species & hope to reduce the price to the original s14/—4 Mr Hegt’s book is sent off.5

My Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | John Murray

Ch Darwin Esqre

1
The year is established by the reference to Dallas trans. 1869 (see n. 2, below).
2
William Sweetland Dallas’s translation of Fritz Müller’s Für Darwin (Dallas trans. 1869, F. Müller 1864a) was published in March 1869 (see letter from Robert Cooke, 12 March 1869).
3
Murray refers to a review by Alfred Russel Wallace in the Quarterly Review ([Wallace] 1869b). On CD’s accident, see the letter to A. R. Wallace, 14 April 1869 and n. 12.
4
Murray refers to the fifth edition of Origin.
5
CD had asked Murray to send J. Noordhoek Hegt a copy of his Journal of researches (see letter to J. N. Hegt, 27 April [1869]).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-6715,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-6715