From R. F. Cooke 9 October 1871
50A, Albemarle Street, London, W.
Octr. 9 1871
My dear Sir
If you will send up the first 6 Chapters of “Origin” I will give Messrs. Clowes’ orders to commence setting them up at once.1
Mr Murray thinks a Glossary might be advisable, but that it shd. not exceed from 6 to 10 pages & that if Mr Dallas was to be offered £10– for it, it wd. be a liberal sum, & that he shd. agree to finish it out of hand by a certain day?2
I am sorry to hear you have been so poorly as I hoped your Guildford visit wd. set you up.3
Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke
C. Darwin Esq
Footnotes
Bibliography
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Summary
Will give printer orders to set up first six chapters of Origin [6th ed.]. Murray thinks a glossary [of scientific terms] might be advisable, if not longer than ten pages. Will offer W. S. Dallas £10 for it.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7996
- From
- Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Albemarle St, 50a
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 403
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7996,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7996.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19
