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Darwin Correspondence Project

From R. F. Cooke   25 October 1881

Albemarle St.

Octr. 25/81

We have exhausted the 2nd 1000 & are now printing the 3rd. & they will be gone before we can say “Jack Robinson”, so pray send into Clowes, any corrections if you have found errors.1

R C

Footnotes

There is an errata slip inserted before p. [i] in the third thousand of Earthworms (Freeman 1977). William Clowes & Sons were printers to John Murray, CD’s publisher.

Bibliography

Earthworms: The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms: with observations on their habits. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1881.

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

Second thousand [of Earthworms] has been exhausted and 3d is being printed. Asks CD to send corrections to the printer.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-13430
From
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
London, Albemarle St
Source of text
DAR 171: 522
Physical description
ApcS

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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13430,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13430.xml

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