From R. F. Cooke 29 June 1877
50A, Albemarle Street, London. W.
June 29 1877
My dear Sir
I am sorry to find you consider there has been more delay with yr new work than necessary.1
The fact is the paper had to be made & this prevented the sheets being printed off & then we are obliged to get forward the set of the stereotype plates for Messr. Appleton, so as to despatch them before we publish here.2
Only half of them are yet done & cannot be sent off before next week.
I am however urging Messr. Clowes3 to get on faster & will try & get your own copies bound as soon as possible, so that your friends may have copies.4
It is a very bad time for publishing new works for the booksellers will not speculate, owing to the dullness of trade
Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke
Chas. Darwin Esq
Footnotes
Bibliography
Forms of flowers: The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877.
Forms of flowers US ed.: The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1877.
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
Explains the delay in publishing [Forms of flowers].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11022
- From
- Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Albemarle St, 50a
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 488
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11022,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11022.xml
