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Darwin Correspondence Project

From R. F. Cooke   26 August 1872

50A, Albemarle Street, London, W.

Augt. 26 1872

My dear Sir

So let it be. I have now ordered from the Heliotype Company 2000 Sets for ourselves & 3000 sets for Appleton to begin with.1

I have directed Clowes to send into Appleton’s agent here, a set of stereotype plates of the work, as you send it to press & the woodcuts.2

Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke

C. Darwin Esq

Footnotes

Charles Layton, the agent of the US publisher D. Appleton & Co., had originally asked for 5000 copies of the heliotypes for Expression (letter to R. F. Cooke, 15 August 1872). Cooke had written to Layton about the charges for the heliotypes (see letter from R. F. Cooke, 21 August 1872).
William Clowes & Sons were the printers of Expression.

Bibliography

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

Summary

Defers to CD and has ordered 2000 sets of impressions from heliotype plates [for Expression] for Murray’s and 3000 sets for Appleton. Also has directed printer to send Appleton a set of stereotype plates of the work and the woodcuts.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-8487
From
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
London, Albemarle St, 50a
Source of text
DAR 171: 419
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8487,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8487.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20

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