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Darwin Correspondence Project

To R. F. Cooke   20 October 1880

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)

Oct. 20— 1880

My dear Sir

I am much obliged for your note & kind regard for my interests.1 As M. Reinwald felt doubt about paying for Translator & bringing out my book, I promised him that he shd. have cliches at cost price, so I must keep my word & please let him have them at this price, viz 10£—, if he finally decides to have translation.—2

As my Books sell well in Germany it will, from what you say, be fair to charge Herr Koch 25£;; but he must not know that I have let the Frenchman have them for 10£.—3

The volume had better be in green to match the others & lettered

“The

Movements

of

Plants

———

Darwin”

I hope that the index-maker has completed his job.—4

Will you be so good as to send copies to whatever Reviews you think desirable: I wd. suggest Nature, Gardener’s Chronicle, & Journal of Botany.5

Before long I will send a list of copies to be distributed in England, & will despatch myself those for abroad.—6

My dear Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

See letter from C.-F. Reinwald, 14 October 1880. Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald published the French translations of CD’s works.
See letter from R. F. Cooke, 19 October 1880 and n. 4. Eduard Koch published the German translations of CD’s works.
The indexer was Matilda Smith (see letter to John Murray, 10 July 1880 and n. 2).
Reviews of Movement in plants appeared in Gardeners’ Chronicle, 27 November 1880, pp. 692–3, and Journal of Botany 19 (1881): 375–81. No review of Movement in plants has been found in Nature.
For the presentation list for Movement in plants, see Appendix IV.

Bibliography

Movement in plants: The power of movement in plants. By Charles Darwin. Assisted by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880.

Summary

CD promised Reinwald the clichés [for Movement in plants] at cost, so he is to be charged £10. Eduard Koch should be charged £25, since CD’s books sell well in Germany – but Koch must not know the French have them for £10.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-12769
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Sent from
Down
Source of text
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 376–7)
Physical description
ALS 3pp

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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12769,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12769.xml

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