From Robert Francis Cooke 5 December 1870
50A, Albemarle Street, London, W.
Decr. 5 1870
My dear Sir
We have just heard from Rotterdam that the 1st. Volume of yr new work is announced there for publication on the 10th.1
Are you aware that they intend to publish Vol 1 by itself.?
We have sent them the Electros, so they can do so unless they are desired to the contrary.2
When do you think we may be able to publish the 2 Vols here?3
Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke
Chas. Darwin Esq
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. 2d edition. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
Summary
Has just heard that 1st volume of Dutch edition [of Descent] has been announced for 10 December. Was CD aware that the Dutch intended to publish vol. 1 by itself?
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7387
- From
- Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Albemarle St, 50a
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 382
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7387,” accessed on 1 October 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7387.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18
