From R. F. Cooke 5 October 1875
50A, Albemarle Street, London, W.
Octr. 5 1875
My dear Sir
We have now retd. from our holidays & are busy with the arrangements for our Trade Sale.1
I hope the printer has been satisfying you with his progress on the “Animals & Plants”.2
I see “Climbing Plants” is complete.3
The enclosed letter has come during my absence. Sigr Canestrini is the gentleman, who never paid us, on a former occasion.4
Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke
Chas. Darwin Esq
Footnotes
Bibliography
Climbing plants 2d ed.: The movements and habits of climbing plants. 2d edition. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Murray, John. 1908–9. Darwin and his publisher. Science Progress in the Twentieth Century 3: 537–42.
Variation 2d ed.: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1875.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Hopes printing of Variation [2d ed.] is going satisfactorily.
Climbing plants [2d ed.] is finished.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10183
- From
- Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Albemarle St, 50a
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 470
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10183,” accessed on 27 July 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10183.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
