My dear Sir

Your work now is almost ready I find, as it merely wants the return of the Index, Title & Contents to the printer. (sent you Sep^r. 23.)¹

I think if so, we sh^d. let the binder have copies to go on with so as to have the work bound up in good time.

I name this, because with these 7 plates it will require great care & time to fold & place them properly in the copies.²

Have you any wishes or instructions as to the folding of the plates—the color of the binding & as to the edges being cut & uncut?

I hope to have at least 3000 sets of plates ready for Appleton by the end of this week, which we may send off, giving them instructions not to publish until the 12^th. of November.³

What do you think of this?

Yours faithfully | Rob^t. Cooke

Cha^s. Darwin Esq