To R. F. Cooke [14 August 1872]1
Leith Hill Place | Wotton | Dorking
Wednesday
My dear Sir
I have heard from my son & it has been the greatest relief to me that the estimate was a mistake.2
I enclose lettered copies of the 7 plates, to you instead of direct to the company, as I do not quite understand what you have determined about the manner of lettering. I hope I shall now cause no more trouble, & I have only further to request you to let me hear, so that I may write at once to foreign editors & inform them of the cost per 1000 copies of the 7 plates paper included.3 I think it wd be quite fair to distribute the cost of the negatives & of the 7 guineas which I have paid to Mr Rejlander4 over all the copies, as well as some slight commission to yourselves for the trouble.
You cannot imagine what a relief it has been to me to find that the H. company has wished to impose upon me.
My dear Sir | yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
Summary
Is greatly relieved to hear that the estimate [of the Heliotype Company] was a mistake. Sends lettered copies of seven plates for Expression, and discusses payment to be made by foreign editors for copies of the plates.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8468
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
- Sent from
- Leith Hill Place
- Source of text
- National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 253–4)
- Physical description
- LS(A) 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8468,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8468.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
