From R. F. Cooke 25 November 1872
Summary
Murray’s must publish [Expression] tomorrow with only 4000 copies, because plates for 3000 additional copies have not yet been delivered. The trade and public will be dissatisfied. It may be advisable to get police to defend the house.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Nov 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 432 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8646 |
From R. F. Cooke 4 October 1872
Summary
Heliotype Company assures RC all 8000 sets of the plates [for Expression] will be ready next week.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Oct 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 422 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8544 |
From R. F. Cooke 26 August 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.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 419 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8487 |
From R. F. Cooke 9 August 1872
Summary
Agrees on price for supplying Appleton with Expression electrotypes and stereotypes. Difficulties with heliotypes [for illustrations of Expression].
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 413 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8460 |
From R. F. Cooke 14 August 1872
Summary
Sends a set of plates [for Expression]. Price of the book must be 12s instead of 10s 6d, or 14s instead of 12s.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 415 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8469 |
From R. F. Cooke 21 August 1872
Summary
Has ordered printing of 2000 sets of illustrations [for Expression] for Murray’s and informed D. Appleton of price per thousand. Has answered letter from Eduard Koch [of Schweizerbart]. Has also arranged for index.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 417 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8479 |
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- … 417 Robert Francis Cooke John Murray London, Albemarle St, 50 21 Aug 1872 Charles Robert …
- … of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. …
- … 1872 ). Electros: electrotypes of the woodcut illustrations. The photographs were reproduced as heliotypes. John Murray . …
To W. D. Fox 29 October [1872]
Summary
Has finished Expression.
His strength fails more and more; needs to rest every six weeks or so.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 29 Oct [1872] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 151) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8585 |
Hallam, Henry. 1818. View of the state of Europe during the Middle Ages. London: John Murray.
From R. F. Cooke 16 August 1872
Summary
Cost of plates [for Expression] is very high and will make "a terrible hole in the profits".
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 416 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8473 |
To R. F. Cooke 4 August 1872
Summary
Asks whether he can tell Appleton that Murray will supply clichés and stereotypes [for Expression] at only a small profit. Will make same offer to other foreign editors. Prefers that W. S. Dallas prepare the index.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 4 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 258–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8451 |
From R. F. Cooke 6 August 1872
Summary
Sends Murray’s cheque for £315 for the last issue of Descent.
Details regarding foreign editions of Expression.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 412 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8452 |
From R. F. Cooke 27 July 1872
Summary
Foreign translations, illustrations, and other arrangements for Expression. Foreign publishers must be bound not to publish before the English edition is out.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 July 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 410 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8430 |
From R. F. Cooke 20 November 1872
Summary
Quandary caused by Heliotype Company’s failure to deliver enough plates for Expression because of a strike. Murray’s now has 7000 books and only 3000 sets of plates.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Nov 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 431 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8637 |
From R. F. Cooke to G. H. Darwin 13 August 1872
Summary
Explains the cost of heliotype plates [for Expression] and the consequent need to raise the price of the book.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 414 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8467 |
From R. F. Cooke 1 August 1872
Summary
Answers CD’s questions on arrangements for forthcoming publication of Expression – including cost of stereotypes, woodcuts, and photo reproductions for foreign translations.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 411 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8444 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 411 Robert Francis Cooke John Murray London, Albemarle St, 50a 1 Aug 1872 Charles Robert …
- … animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. Prodger, Phillip. 2009. Darwin’s …
- … John Murray . CD had enquired about a sum of £315 that was to be paid into his bank (see letter to R. F. Cooke, 29 July 1872 ). …
From R. F. Cooke 11 October 1872
Summary
D. Appleton has been sent 3000 sets of plates [for Expression]. Hopes to publish [Expression] on 12 Nov.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Oct 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 424 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8555 |
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- … 424 Robert Francis Cooke John Murray London, Albemarle St, 50a 11 Oct 1872 Charles Robert …
- … animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The …
- … John Murray . D. Appleton & Co . , CD’s US publisher, had requested stereotypes of the text and woodcuts of Expression and copies of the heliotype plates; Charles Layton was the firm’s agent in London (see letter from Charles Layton, 13 August 1872 ). …
To R. F. Cooke 17 August 1872
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.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 17 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 283–4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8474 |
Gladstone, William Ewart. 1873. Address delivered at the distribution of prizes in the Liverpool Collegiate Institution, Decr. 21, 1872. London: John Murray.
Origin 6th ed.: The origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. 6th edition, with additions and corrections. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
To R. F. Cooke 20 November [1872]
Summary
Discusses production of plates [for Expression].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 20 Nov [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 288 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8638 |
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- … ‘My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, ‘is so nearly closed. . . What little more I …
John Murray
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Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute
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- … Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The …
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Rewriting Origin - the later editions
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Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest
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- … The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, seeing the publication of his …
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants …
St George Jackson Mivart
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- … John Maurice Herbert was a close friend of Darwin’s at Cambridge University. He was affectionately …
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- … Sources | Discussion Questions | Experiment Earthworms and Wedgwood cousins …
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- … Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of …
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- … The following extracts and selected letters explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual …
Survival of the fittest: the trouble with terminology Part II
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Movement in Plants
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- … At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
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