To R. F. Cooke 10 February [1871]1
Down, Beckenham, Kent. S.E
Feb. 10th.
My dear Sir
I find Mr. Blyth is recovered so please add his name and address as on next page to list of presentation copies.2
If you wish to ease Review-copy—strike out Gardener’s Chronicle, for it is out of the line of Editor, but you will know best.3
The Index is absurdly long, yet excellently good; it might however have been shorter; but it is my fault owing to my instructions: I am quite vexed at its length. Mr. Dallas would be grateful for early payment, as I hear from him.4
Thank all the powers above and below the Book is wholly out of my hands.
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
“E. Blyth, Esq. 12, Fitz Roy Road, Regents Park”— Nota Bene, if not there, please send book “to care of Editor of Field, Strand.”5
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
Asks that a presentation copy [of Descent?] be sent to Edward Blyth. Comments on publication.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7480
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 143: 278
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7480,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7480.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19
