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375 DARWIN (CHARLES)

[Letter to Robert Monsey Rolfe, 10 November [1858]]

A.L.S., 2 1/2 pages, 8vo, Down, 10 November, [no year], to Lord Cranworth, returning thanks for a contribution to the Down Charities and explaining his own hermit-like existence, lightly attached to an album leaf

 . . not to accept your & Lady Cranworth's kindness is a real loss of pleasure to me, but I find by dear-bought experience that going out at present knocks me up for so many days, that I must forego the pleasure. I can only hope that I shall not always be compelled to live the life of a hermit. . .

386 DARWIN (CHARLES)

L.s. with half-page autograph postscript 4 pages, 8vo, Down, 24 November, [c. 1866], to a representative of his American publishers D. Appleton, about a new American edition of "The Origin of Species" and of his new book (probably "Variation under Domestication")

... I have long earnestly wished for a new edition of the Origin in the United States, as it is 92 pages longer than the 2nd. edition, besides endless small though important corrections. I feel sure that the continued large sale of this book in England Germany & France has depended on my keeping up each edition to the existing standard of science. I hope I am right in supposing that Messrs. Appleton are willing to print in some form a new edition, for though unwilling to act in a disobliging manner towards them I had resolved soon to write to Professor Asa Gray to ask him to find some publisher who would print the new edition of the Origin, on condition of my supplying him with the sheets of my new book as they were printed & which book will probably have a large sale ... I should like in case the answer is favorable to send in M.S. half a dozen small corrections for the Origin . . .