To R. F. Cooke 24 June [1875]1
Abinger Hall | Wotton, Surrey
June 24th
My dear Sir
I have just received the last clean sheets for German Translation, so that book now all finished.— I hope that you will get copies quickly bound.—2 Please have all my copies cut.—3 Please despatch the first copies abroad.— How about price?4
I suppose that there will be none ready till after July 1st & that will reduce foreign postage by a half, except to France & U. States &c—5
I hope that you will put a rather conspicuous advertisement into Nature & Gardener’s Chronicle.—6
Please see about Stereotype Plates for U. States.—7 No doubt I shall require to know cost of stereotypes of woodcuts for German Translation.—
My dear Sir | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
When I hear about price of book, be so good as to tell me, if you can, how soon you will distribute copies.
N.B. I return home early on July 6th.—8
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Treaty on postal union: Treaty concerning the formation of a general postal union. Signed at Berne, October 9, 1874. Washington: Government Printing Office. 1875.
Summary
Insectivorous plants ready for publication. Asks price. Suggests advertisements in Nature and Gardeners’ Chronicle.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10028
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Robert Francis Cooke
- Sent from
- Abinger Hall
- Source of text
- National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 338–9)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10028,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10028.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23