RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1871. Receipt for Murray's payment for Descent. PC-USA-DescentReceipt. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Scans provided by the owner of the manuscript. Edited by John van Wyhe 9.2020. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. From the December 2012 Heritage Auctions description: "1 page (8 ¼ x 7 ¾ in.; 210 x 197 mm.) Auction 997004 | Lot: 1235." Reproduced with the kind permission of a private collection, USA. The same private collection holds:
[c. 1858]. Notes on Huber, Recherches sur les Moeurs des Fourmis Indigènes (1810). Text & image PC-USA-OriginAnts
1858. Draft leaf of Origin. Text & image PC-USA-OriginMS270
1858-59. Draft leaf of Origin. Text & image PC-USA-OriginMS324
1859.11.11. Letter to Adam Sedgwick on sending Origin. Text & image PC-USA-SedgwickOrigin
[1859].12.24. Letter to T. H. Huxley on a manuscript on the evolution of pigeons. Text & image PC-USA-HuxleyPigeons
[1861-62]. Draft of Orchids, folio 192. Text & image Sanders-3.2017Lot96.
1870. Draft leaf of Descent. Text & image PC-USA-DescentMS10
1871. Receipt for Murray's payment for Descent. Text & image PC-USA-DescentReceipt
1871. Draft leaf of Expression. Text & image CUL-DAR185.143
1871. Draft leaf of Expression. Text & image CUL-DAR185.144
1868.02.09. Letter to Asa Gray on Variation. Text & image PC-USA-GrayVariation

This very rare document is the receipt for Darwin's earnings for the first edition of Descent. It is in the hand of a clerk of his publisher John Murray and signed by Darwin in the unusual form of "Ch. R. Darwin" over an inland revenue one-penny stamp. The text of the recto of this receipt was published (from a photocopy) in Correspondence vol. 19, p. 102.

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