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Darwin Correspondence Project

From R. F. Cooke   27 April 1880

50A, Albemarle Street, London. W.

April 27 1880

My dear Sir

We are as much puzzled as yourself, as to a Title for your new work.1

I have set up the enclosed for you to alter, correct, revise, add to, or curtail as you think best & then send it back & I will let you have a fresh proof to consider.2

Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke

Chas. Darwin Esq

Footnotes

See letter to R. F. Cooke, 23 April [1880]. CD had not settled on a title for Movement in plants.
The enclosure has not been found, but was probably a proof-sheet of the title page of Movement in plants.

Bibliography

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

Summary

His publishers are as puzzled as CD about what the title of his new book [Movement in plants] should be. Sends a tentative one in proof [missing].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-12590
From
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
London, Albemarle St, 50a
Source of text
DAR 171: 504
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12590,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12590.xml

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