From R. F. Cooke 23 August 1872
50A, Albemarle Street, London, W.
Augt. 23 1872
My dear Sir
The expense of having to pay £66.0.0 for every 1000 Impressions of the Heliotypes sticks in my gizzard.1
I have ordered 2000 sets for the 1st. edition for England.
But do not think we might from a set of these heliotypes have them photographed on to wood & so secure the expression & then engraved. The 1st. expensive would be £100, but we should be able to print off the impression much cheaper.
How does this occur to you? It is only an idea of mine just now.
The Index is in hand2
Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke
C. Darwin Esq
My chief is back again3
Footnotes
Bibliography
Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
Summary
Cost of impression of the heliotype plates [for Expression] is so high that he asks CD to consider having a set photographed onto wood and then engraved. Index [for Expression] is in hand.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8483
- From
- Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Albemarle St, 50a
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 418
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8483,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8483.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
