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To R. F. Cooke   11 December [1877]

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Sends corrected sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation. How many copies will be printed? Asks whether he is correct in thinking that he has not been paid for the July printing.

Plans to correct Forms of flowers when new edition is needed.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:  11 Dec [1877]
Classmark:  National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 297–8)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11276

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  • … title page of Cross and self fertilisation 2d ed. See letter from R. F. Cooke, 16 March …
  • Cross and self fertilisation 2d ed. were printed until some time after February 1878 (see Correspondence vol. 26, letter from R. …
  • letter from R. F. Cooke, 13 December 1877 . William Clowes & Sons were printers to John Murray , CD’s publisher. The first edition of Cross

To R. F. Cooke   24 November 1877

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Asks exact number of copies of recent printing of Origin.

Approves stereotyping Orchids,

but fears he cannot approve of stereotyping Cross and self-fertilisation and Forms of flowers. It is too soon for the latter, and he is too busy to correct the former.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:  24 Nov 1877
Classmark:  National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 300–1)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11252

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  • letter from R. F. Cooke, 23 November 1877 . For the correction, see the letter from J. V. Carus, 13 June 1877 ; the correction was made to the revised second edition of Orchids in 1882. Cross
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