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From R. F. Cooke   16 July 1875

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The second printing of 1000 copies [of Insectivorous plants] has sold out. Will print 750 more [3000 in all]. Mudie’s Library and Simpkin & Co. have ordered more copies.

Author:  Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 July 1875
Classmark:  DAR 171: 457
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10071

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  • Francis Cooke John Murray London, Albemarle St, 50a 16 July 1875 Charles Robert Darwin

From Charlotte Papé   16 July 1875

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Wants to study hereditary mental characters to see whether they are limited by sex – an idea CD holds provisionally and which she doubts. She sends a questionnaire form that she asks CD to criticise. Has read Francis Galton [Hereditary genius (1869)].

Author:  Charlotte Papé
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 July 1875
Classmark:  DAR 174: 27
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10072

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  • … By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871. Galton, Francis. 1869. Hereditary …
  • Darwin, I must ask your pardon and your indulgence for the great liberty I am going to take just now in begging of you the favour to look at the enclosed paper. The general interest which I always took in questions relating to the laws that regulate the developement of life has been raised to a very strong wish to know as much about it as I can, by your own works, which I have only now been able to really read; and Mr.  Francis