From R. F. Cooke 3 September 1875
50A, Albemarle Street, London, W.
Septr. 3 1875
My dear Sir
As we are to stereotype the new edition of “Animals & Plants” it does not so much matter about the answer from America, as we shall always have the means of doing so.1
When authors want to make many corrections & have more margin to do so we are in the habit of sending their proofs out in slips such as the printed matter I know enclose to show you. This saves much expense also, as it is the corrections made on the proofs after the pages have been formed that are so expensive.2
I think we had better keep the publication of the “Climbing Plants” for our Annual Trade Sale as it is now so late in the season.3
I shall not be here after Monday, for a few weeks.
Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke
Chas. Darwin Esq
Footnotes
Bibliography
Climbing plants: On the movements and habits of climbing plants. By Charles Darwin. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green; Williams & Norgate. 1865.
Murray, John. 1908–9. Darwin and his publisher. Science Progress in the Twentieth Century 3: 537–42.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Since the new edition of Variation will be stereotyped, Murray’s will always have means to provide plates if they are wanted in America.
Explains their way of sending proofs for authors who want wide margins for corrections.
Thinks it better to keep Climbing plants for the annual trade sale.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10151
- From
- Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Albemarle St, 50a
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 469
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10151,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10151.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
