From R. F. Cooke 27 August 1875
50A, Albemarle Street, London, W.
Augt. 27 1875
My dear Sir
The calculation of Animals & Plants is that
| Vol 1 | will make | 444 | pages |
| Vol 2 | do | 560 | do |
this is rather unequal could you not manage to relieve Vol 2 & add to Vol 1 in dividing the work?1
Do you wish “Climbing Plants” to be published at once?2
Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke
C. Darwin Esq
Are stereotype plates wanted for America of “Animals & Plants” as well as “Climbing ones”?3
Footnotes
Bibliography
Climbing plants 2d ed.: The movements and habits of climbing plants. 2d edition. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Climbing plants: On the movements and habits of climbing plants. By Charles Darwin. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green; Williams & Norgate. 1865.
Variation 2d ed.: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1875.
Summary
The two volumes of Variation [2d ed.] are unequal in size. Can CD reduce vol. 2 and increase vol. 1?
Does CD wish to publish Climbing plants [2d ed.] at once?
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10135
- From
- Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Albemarle St, 50a
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 466
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10135,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10135.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
