To R. F. Cooke 17 August 1872
Leith Hill Place | Dorking Wotton
Aug. 17 1872
(return home on Wed)
My dear Sir
I will tell all foreigners that you will supply them at £75 per 1000 copies.1 This sounds large, but after all I think you take an exaggerated view of the subject, for 1s-6d added to the price of the book will entirely cover this outlay.
I cd not possibly have given many of the expressions by wood-block but I wd not have given so many photos had I forseen the cost.
I enclose a translation of M. Koch’s letter;2 & will you be so kind as to act accordingly. I will write by this post to him & tell him the price of the heliotypes.
I am very much obliged for all the great trouble you have taken in assisting me— | My dear Sir | yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Will inform all foreign publishers that John Murray will supply 1000 copies of heliotype plates [for Expression] for £75. CD would not have used so many photos had he foreseen the cost, but woodcuts would not have done.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8474
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
- Sent from
- Leith Hill Place
- Source of text
- National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 283–4)
- Physical description
- LS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8474,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8474.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20