From R. F. Cooke 22 June 1869
50a, Albemarle Street, London, W.
June 22 1869
My dear Sir
You will have received a copy by Saturday post of the new edition of the Origin.1
I merely write a line to say all your presentation copies have been sent out & that we shall publish the work this week.
We sent by yr directions a set of Electros in Jany last, to Bologna. Are we to make any charge for it & if so to whom?2 At present we have only a memorandum in our books of their being sent.
Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke
Charles 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–.
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.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
RC has sent a copy of the new [5th] edition of Origin.
Electrotypes [of Orchids] have been sent to Bologna.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6794
- From
- Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Albemarle St, 50a
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 370
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6794,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6794.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17
