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Darwin Correspondence Project

To R. F. Cooke   6 October 1875

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Oct 6. 75

My dear Sir

I fear Var: under Dom: will not be ready for yr sale, unless you can get the printers to send proofs more quickly.1 I have only corrected to Ch X as yet, & the corrections have been very slight, with only one sheet revised; but the corrections will I fear be heavier in the remainder, as much more has been added & omitted. The repaging of the index will also take up much of Messrs Clowes time

I will write to Italy & tell the Publishers, that they can have the wood blocks for £10 on pre-payment2  I suppose that you will write about Lyell’s work, & if so please inform them of the cost of blocks & photographs of my Expression book.3 If you do not write, let me hear the cost & I will inform them

Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

PS | Let me hear the result of yr trade sale4

Footnotes

William Clowes & Sons were printers to John Murray, CD’s publisher. Publication of the second edition of Variation in November would have meant that copies could be sold at Murray’s annual sale dinner (see letter from R. F. Cooke, 5 October 1875 and nn. 1 and 2).
Cooke had reminded CD that Murray had not been paid for stereotypes of the illustrations for the Italian translation of Variation (see letter from R. F. Cooke, 5 October 1875 and n. 4).
CD probably refers to a possible translation of the posthumous edition of Principles of geology by Charles Lyell (Lyell 1875). The Italian translation of Expression was published in 1878 (Canestrini and Bassani trans. 1878).
See n. 2, above.

Bibliography

Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.

Lyell, Charles. 1875. Principles of geology: or, the modern changes of the earth and its inhabitants considered as illustrative of geology. 12th edition. 2 vols. London: John Murray.

Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.

Summary

Fears Variation [2d ed.] will not be ready for Murray’s annual sale unless printer sends proof more quickly. Arrangements with Italian publishers.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-10184
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Robert Francis Cooke
Sent from
Down
Source of text
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 326–7)
Physical description
LS 3pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10184,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10184.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23

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