To R. F. Cooke [25 October 1872]1
Sevenoaks.
Friday
My dear Sir
Will you be so kind as to send on my account tomorrow (if possible) a set of clean sheets, with a set of Heliotypes, to M. Reinwald, 15 Rue des Saints Peres, Paris, so that he may see the nature of the work. M. Reinwald wants to bring out a Translation, and asks me “to propose any person with whom he can make an agreement.”2 My books sell much less in France than in any other country, still I think I ought to receive some small payment for the right of Translation. Mr Murray kindly offered once to negotiate for me, and I have ventured to tell M. Reinwald that I would authorise Mr. Murray to enter into an agreement with him.3 I hope he will thus far oblige me, and I shall be content with moderate terms. I have no idea what I ought to accept and put myself absolutely into Mr. Murray’s Hands.
My dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Thank Heaven I shall be at home tomorrow4
I have told M. Reinwald cost of Blocks and Heliotype plates.5
Footnotes
Bibliography
Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
Summary
Comments on discussions with C. Reinwald concerning French edition of Expression.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8538
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
- Sent from
- Sevenoaks
- Source of text
- DAR 143: 285
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8538,” accessed on 12 September 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8538.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20