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Darwin Correspondence Project

From R. F. Cooke   15 November 1880

50A, Albemarle Street, London. W.

Nov 15 1880

My dear Sir

We shall to reprint your work on the Descent of Man, as we require nearly 200 more copies than we have in stock.1

Do you wish to make any corrections in the stereotype plates?2

Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke

Chas. Darwin Esq

Footnotes

The most recent reprinting of Descent 2d ed. was in 1879; an additional thousand copies (the fourteenth thousand) were issued in 1881 (Freeman 1977).
There were no known changes to the text of the 1881 reprint (Freeman 1977).

Bibliography

Descent 2d ed.: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition. London: John Murray. 1874.

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

Murray’s must reprint Descent. Does CD want to make any corrections in the plates?

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-12821
From
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
London, Albemarle St, 50a
Source of text
DAR 210.11: 19
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12821,” accessed on 21 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12821.xml

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