From R. F. Cooke 15 February 1871
50A, Albemarle Street, London, W.
Feby. 15 1871
My dear Sir
We are doing our utmost to get yr work forward.1
The printing will all be finished tonight & tomorrow the binders will get perfect copies.
I have here already your copies of Vol 1—written in, so that we have only to get the same number of copies of Vol 2, & then we will send them all out expeditiously.
Your own 30 copies, shall be amongst the first batch & I hope to despatch them on Friday.
We cannot publish before the middle or end of next week, as we cannot make a partial delivery
I suspect the whole edition of 2500 Copies will be out of our hands by Saturday week.2
Yrs faithfully | Robt Cooke
C. Darwin Esqre
Bibliography
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
Printing of Descent will be done this day. Cannot publish until next week.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7483
- From
- Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Albemarle St, 50a
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 386
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7483,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7483.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19
