From R. F. Cooke 16 March 1877
50A, Albemarle Street, London. W.
March 16 1877
My dear Sir
I have the pleasure of enclosing you Mr Murray’s cheque for £140 on a/c of the present edition of Cross & Self Fertilization (1500) which are nearly all exhausted.
Also £120 on a/c of the present edition (1250) of Origin of Species, of which we still have in stock about 500 copies, but the expenses have all been paid & we are sure of their moving off soon.1
I hope this may be satisfactory & With Mr Murray’s & my own compliments
Believe me | Faithfully Yours | Robt. Cooke
Chas. Darwin Esq
Footnotes
Bibliography
Cross and self fertilisation: The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1876.
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.
Summary
Sends cheques in payment of CD’s share of profits on Cross and self-fertilisation, now nearly exhausted,
and the latest printing of Origin.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10896
- From
- Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Albemarle St, 50a
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 485
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10896,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10896.xml
