From Charles Layton   22 November 1869

16 Little Britain (City)

November 22/69

Sir

Messrs Appleton & Co (Publishers) New York have directed me to write to you and ask if you will supply them with a Set of Stereotype Plates of your New book for the American Market,1 they will pay the cost of Plates, and give you copyright of 10[per cent] on the sale of copies, same as they do with Profr Huxley, Profr Bain2 and Mr. Herbert Spencer— They would also like to have a Set of Stereotype Plates of New Editn Origin of Species on same terms3   an early reply will oblige

Yours Respectfully | Charles Layton | Agent D. Appleton & Co

To | Mr Darwin

Not knowing your address I send this to care of Mr Murray—4

1
The reference is to Descent. On the practice of American publishers of printing from stereotypes, see the letter from Orange Judd & Co., 21 April 1869 and n. 3.
2
The references are to Thomas Henry Huxley and the philosopher Alexander Bain.
3
The fifth edition of Origin was published in June 1869 (letter from R. F. Cooke, 22 June 1869).
4
John Murray was CD’s publisher.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7003,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7003