From R. F. Cooke 23 February 1876
50A, Albemarle Street, London. W.
Feby 23 1876
My dear Sir
I enclose you Mr Murrays cheque for £105 for the present edition of yr “Descent of Man”.1
Yesterday I sent to Messrs. Clowes, the corrections for yr Origin of Species & Climbing Plants & ordered them to print off
- 1250 Origin
- 500 Climbing Plants
- 1000 Naturalists Voyage2
Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke
Chas. Darwin Esq
Footnotes
Bibliography
Climbing plants 2d ed.: The movements and habits of climbing plants. 2d edition. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
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.
Journal of researches (1860): Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of HMS Beagle around the world, under the command of Capt. FitzRoy RN. By Charles Darwin. Reprint edition. London: John Murray. 1860.
Origin (1876): The origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. 6th edition, with additions and corrections to 1872. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1876.
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.
Summary
Sends cheque for Descent [2d ed., 1875 issue].
Has sent corrections to printer for Climbing plants
and Origin. Has ordered to print: 1250 copies of Origin,
500 of Climbing plants,
and 1000 of Naturalist’s voyage [Journal of researches].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10407
- From
- Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Albemarle St, 50a
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 483
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10407,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10407.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24