From R. F. Cooke 12 March 1869
Summary
Book [Facts and arguments for Darwin] is being bound; it is probably too late to alter lettering.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 367 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6659 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From R. F. Cooke 12 March 1869 …
- … R. F. Cooke, 9 March [1869] , and letter from R. F. Cooke, 10 March 1869 and n. 2). …
- … trans. 1869 (see letter to R. F. Cooke, 9 March [1869] ). For the list of journals that …
- … 1869, see the letter to R. F. Cooke, 23 [February 1869] . Cooke refers to the lettering …
To R. F. Cooke 9 March [1869]
Summary
Suggests best form of lettering for spine of Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 9 Mar [1869] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 198–199) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6648 |
From R. F. Cooke 22 February 1869
Summary
There will be no objection to the French translation or difficulty about woodcuts of Orchids.
Has not yet received the information about Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Feb 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 364 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6627 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From R. F. Cooke 22 February 1869 …
- … See letter to R. F. Cooke, [22 February 1869] and n. 2. Cooke refers to the English …
- … trans. 1869). See letter from R. F. Cooke, 23 February 1869 . CD’s annotations appear …
- … to expenses for Dallas trans. 1869 (see letter from R. F. Cooke, 23 February 1869 ). …
From R. F. Cooke 10 March 1869
Summary
Sends statement [missing] of cost and proceeds of publishing Facts and arguments for Darwin at 6s. Asks whether CD agrees to this price.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 366 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6653 |
To R. F. Cooke 23 [February 1869]
Summary
Agrees to printing 1000 copies of Fritz Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin though he fears it is foolish. Lists seven publications for review copies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke |
Date: | 23 [Feb 1869] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 194–197) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6628 |
From R. F. Cooke 29 April 1869
Summary
Confirms a request by CD that Murray’s supply electrotypes of Orchids at most reasonable possible price.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Apr 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 369 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6719 |
To R. F. Cooke 23 June [1869]
Summary
He told Giovanni Canestrini that stereotypes [for Variation] would cost £10.
Reminds RC of his suggestion that a copy [of Origin, 5th ed.] be sent to Scientific Opinion for review.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke |
Date: | 23 June [1869] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 203–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6798 |
From R. F. Cooke 23 February 1869
Summary
Estimates cost of F. Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin at £86 for 750 copies, less than £10 extra for 1000.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Feb 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 365 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6629 |
From Charles Layton 22 November 1869
Summary
Appleton & Co. wish to be supplied with set of stereotype plates of CD’s new book [Descent] for American market; will pay for cost of plates, and 10% of sales to CD.
Also desire plates for new edition of the Origin.
Author: | Charles James (Charles) Layton; D. Appleton & Co |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 83a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7003 |
To J. V. Carus 5 February 1869
Summary
Thanks JVC for his information (from two correspondents) on the rate of growth of merino rams’ horns.
CD has been revising Origin [5th ed.]. Has found a good deal to alter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 5 Feb 1869 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 39–40) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6601 |
From R. F. Cooke 2 November 1869
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 372 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6968 |
To R. F. Cooke 2 July [1869]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Date: | 2 July [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 272 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6814 |
From Charles Layton 25 November 1869
Summary
Asks CD to have stereotype plates made of new edition of Origin [5th English], if type still standing, though Appleton will reset type if necessary. Warns there is smaller audience in the U. S. for "good scientific books".
Appleton would also like plates made of new book [Descent] when possible.
Author: | Charles James (Charles) Layton; D. Appleton & Co |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7009 |
From R. F. Cooke 22 June 1869
Summary
RC has sent a copy of the new [5th] edition of Origin.
Electrotypes [of Orchids] have been sent to Bologna.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 June 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 370 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6794 |
From John Murray 8 November [1869]
Summary
JM advises CD regarding his relations with Masson, the French publisher of the Origin [1866], and the possibility of Reinwald’s publishing a translation of the 5th edition.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Nov [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 373 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6978 |
From Ernest Faivre 15 March 1869
Summary
EF is seeking a French editor for Orchids [1870]. Introduces L. Rérolle, his student. [See 6667.]
Author: | Jean-Joseph-August-Ernest (Ernest) Faivre |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 129 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6663 |
From R. F. Cooke 21 April 1875
Summary
V. O. Kovalevsky has paid for the Expression plates.
Still has 400 copies of Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet
and 450 of Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Apr 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 448 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9944 |
To James Crichton-Browne 22 May 1869
Summary
Thanks for MS observations on expression. Discusses hair standing on end in terror and rage. Asks JC-B to observe contraction of platysma myoides. "Your description of the grinning and exposure of the canine teeth under furious rage is excellent. I presume that you would not object to my quoting it." Asks about contraction of "grief muscles". Comments on blushing. Offers to send book by G. B. A. Duchenne [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine (1862)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 22 May 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 327 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6755 |
From R. F. Cooke 12 April 1877
Summary
JM will be pleased to publish the new work [Forms of flowers] on the usual terms. MS has been sent to the printer.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 487 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10927 |
From Ernst Haeckel 2 July 1869
Summary
Comments on 5th edition of the Origin [1869];
preparation of second edition of Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte [1870].
The reception of CD’s theory. Mentions support of Pieter Harting and Michael Sars.
EH’s research on calcareous sponges and plans to publish monograph on them.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 July 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6812 |
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Cooke, R. F. | (9) |
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D. Appleton & Co | (3) |
Layton, Charles | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
Cooke, R. F. | (3) |
Murray, John (b) | (3) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Cooke, R. F. | (12) |
John Murray | (10) |
Murray, John (b) | (5) |
D. Appleton & Co | (3) |