To R. F. Cooke 18 November [1879]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Nov. 18th
My dear Sir
I am very much obliged for Mr Murray’s kind offer, but the compiler (the son of the Noble Garrison) sent me a copy. I told him I know nothing about copyright or whether Mr. Murray wd object to the book being sold in England. In my opinion it wd. serve as an advertisement of my Journal. But I do not at all know whether the Publishers intend to try to sell it in England.2
I was satisfied with the sale of my books at your sale, except of the life of Dr. D. for though my reason told me, as I said to you, that 1000 copies wd be enough to print off, yet I had a secret wish that more wd be ultimately required.3 This, I suppose, is now very improbable, though just possible, if the little book shd. be spoken well of in Reviews.
With many thanks for all your kind assistance | I remain, my dear Sir | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Darwin, Charles. 1880. What Mr. Darwin saw in his voyage round the world in the ship ‘Beagle’. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers.
Murray, John. 1908–9. Darwin and his publisher. Science Progress in the Twentieth Century 3: 537–42.
Summary
Thinks W. P. Garrison’s book [extracts from Journal of researches for juvenile readers] would serve as an advertisement for the Journal.
Disappointed at sale of Erasmus Darwin.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12327
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 364–5)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12327,” accessed on 20 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12327.xml