456 LETTERS TO DARWIN AND OTHERS. [1860, 
TO CHARLES DARWIN. 
CAMBRIDGE, January 23, 1860. 
My pear 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, ete., ete. And I sent them the first 
leaf, and asked them to insert in their future issue the 
additional matter from Butler,’ 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. 
