456 LETTERS TO DARWIN AND OTHERS. [1860, 



TO CHARLES DARWIN. 



CAMBRIDGE, January 23, 1860. 



MY DEAR DARWIN, You have my hurried letter 

 telling you of the arrival of the remainder of the 

 sheets of the reprint, and of the stir I had made for a 

 reprint in Boston. Well, all looked pretty well, when 

 lo, we found that a second New York publishing 

 house had announced a reprint also ! I wrote then to 

 both New York publishers, asking them to give way 

 to the author and his reprint of a revised edition. I 

 got an answer from Harpers that they withdraw ; 

 from the Appletons, that they had got the book out 

 (and the next day I saw a copy) ; but that, " if the 

 work should have any considerable sale, we certainly 

 shall be disposed to pay the author reasonably and 

 liberally." 



The Appletons being thus out with their reprint, 

 the Boston house declined to go on. So I wrote to 

 the Appletons, taking them at their word, offering to 

 aid their reprint, to give them the use of the altera- 

 tions in the London reprint, as soon as I find out 

 what they are, etc., etc. And I sent them the first 

 leaf, and asked them to insert in their future issue the 

 additional matter from Butler, 1 which tells just right. 

 So there the matter stands. If you furnish any mat- 

 ter in advance of the London third edition, I will 

 make them pay for it. 



I may get something for you. All got is clear gain ; 

 but it will not be very much, I suppose. 



Such little notices in the papers as have yet ap- 

 peared are quite handsome and considerable. 



1 A quotation from Butler's Analogy, on the use of the word " nat- 

 ural," which in the second edition is placed with the passages from 

 Whewell and Bacon, on p. ii., opposite the title-page. 



