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 |
To R. F. Cooke [after 11 October 1872]
Summary
Discusses printing of Expression.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Date: | [after 11 Oct 1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 284 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8537 |
From John Murray 12 November [1872]
Summary
Price of Expression is 12s.
Sends cheque to pay CD his share of profits on Origin [6th ed.].
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Nov [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 430 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8622 |
To R. F. Cooke 12 April 1881
Summary
Agrees that new book [Earthworms] be published on old terms. Hopes it will not fail.
CD is curious to read an essay on evolution by a Hindu, which is being sent to Murray from India.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Date: | 12 Apr 1881 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 385–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13114 |
From R. F. Cooke 13 December 1877
Summary
Messrs Clowes will make CD’s corrections and adjust index of Cross and self-fertilisation. Of this work only 1500 copies have been printed. Edition is sold out and account is enclosed.
Of 500 copies of Climbing plants [2d ed.] printed in June 1876, 450 were still unsold as of June 1877.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 499, DAR 210.11: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11278 |
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To R. F. Cooke 12 January [1871]
Summary
Has no idea about length of index [for Descent]. W. S. Dallas wrote it would take ten days more. Asks how many presentation copies he may have. Lists journals to receive review copies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Date: | 12 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 274 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7438 |
From John Murray 29 November [1877]
Summary
Answers CD’s query about payment made to him [for Descent and Forms of flowers] and explains the basis on which it was made. Because of CD’s wish to be paid before editions are sold off, profits must be estimated. If he were willing to accept annual statements of sales, payments based on them, and final accounting when all were sold, there would be no uncertainty. This is JM’s usual practice.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Nov [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 497, DAR 210.11: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11259 |
To John Murray 28 November 1877
Summary
On publishing details for various CD books.
Has no corrections for new issue of Descent [2d ed.].
Questions amount of cheque for profits.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 28 Nov 1877 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 293–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11258 |
From R. F. Cooke 26 February 1878
Summary
Asks CD’s opinion on number of copies to be printed of Cross and self-fertilisation [2d ed.]. Now that it is revised, they will stereotype.
Type of Forms of flowers stands, awaiting CD’s corrections, before stereotyping and printing of more copies.
RC regrets delay in supply of Origin.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Feb 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 500 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11376 |
To R. F. Cooke 17 November 1875
Summary
Reminds RC that he will lose £200 unless Variation [2d ed.] sells pretty well in the U. S. [and therefore Murray’s price for stereotypes should be kept low].
Is unwilling that Insectivorous plants be stereotyped until he has profited by criticisms and new facts. It would be better to wait a few years and correct the book thoroughly before stereotyping.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Date: | 17 Nov 1875 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 320–1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10263 |
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From D. Appleton & Co 23 November 1875
Summary
Can cut the electros from the plates of the illustrations for the new edition of Variation if they are the same as in the first edition.
Has received plates for Climbing plants and will print immediately.
Author: | D. Appleton & Co |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Nov 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10271 |
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From R. F. Cooke 8 October 1875
Summary
Canestrini still owes £10 from 1869 for electros of 1st edition [of Variation].
RC has urged Clowes on with printing of Variation [2d ed.],
but with Climbing plants [2d ed.] ready, it need not be done before the annual sale.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Oct 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 471 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10187 |
To A. W. Bennett 17 July [1875]
Summary
Thanks AWB for review in Nature [probably review of Insectivorous plants, 12 (1875): 206–9, 228–31].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred William Bennett |
Date: | 17 July [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10074 |
From R. F. Cooke 19 March 1877
Summary
Murray’s will not announce CD’s new work [Forms of flowers] until informed to do so.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 486 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10903 |
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- … letter from CD has not been found, but see the letter from R. F. Cooke, 16 March 1877 . Cooke had sent two cheques totalling £260 for profits from sales of Cross and self fertilisation and Origin (1876) . CD did not send the manuscript for Forms of flowers until April 1877 ( letter to R. F. Cooke, 11 …
To John Murray 12 May [1871]
Summary
Will require at least six weeks’ notice before a new edition of Descent has to go to press because of considerable corrections needed.
Thinks cheap edition of Origin is needed, since he could answer objections in it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 12 May [1871] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 244–5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7755 |
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- … letter and the letter from John Murray, 10 May 1871 . The bills were Murray’s payment for the third printing of Descent. See letter from John Murray, 10 May 1871 . The Darwins were visiting William Erasmus Darwin in Southampton from 11 to 19 May 1871 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). See letter to R. F. Cooke, …
To R. F. Cooke 8 November [1880]
Summary
Thanks RC for telling him about sale of 600 copies [of Movement in plants]. He had expected less, so loss will not be as heavy as he feared. Asks whether he should not have 250 more copies printed and what it would cost to have the type kept up.
Instructions for presentation copies.
The index is the worst ever published.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Date: | 8 Nov [1880] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 378–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12804 |
From Francis Darwin [11 or 12 November 1880]
Summary
Sorry he forgot the gardener’s address. Having a very nice time in Cambridge, and is almost finished the bramble paper. Drawing room is upside down, so living in Horace’s working room and dining room. Greek question was lost in the Senate House. George dined there last night. Too muddy to bicycle. Has some stuff for spectacles.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [11 or 12 Nov 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12807F |
To Asa Gray 4 June [1877]
Summary
C. E. Bessey’s case [see 10969] came too late, as the sheets had been printed, but CD thinks it should be carefully investigated as a possible case of incipient heterostyly.
Is trying to make out the function of "bloom", the waxy secretion on leaves and fruits.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 4 June [1877] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (119) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10982 |
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- … letter and the letter from Asa Gray, 22 May 1877 . Gray had forwarded a letter from Charles Edwin Bessey on a possible case of dimorphism in Lithospermum longiflorum (a synonym of Lithospermum incisum , fringed gromwell; see letter from Asa Gray, 22 May 1877 ). CD’s manuscript of Forms of flowers was sent to the publisher on 11 April (see letter to R. F. Cooke, …
To John Scott 26 October 1872
Summary
Acknowledges JS’s excellent letter of 25 September. May CD assume that the gigantic worm-casts were nearly circular when measured before the rain?
That a medical man should always have the place of superintendent seems a piece of jobbery.
Mentions [George] King.
JS’s thin paper renders some words on other side almost illegible.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 26 Oct 1872 |
Classmark: | Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8578F |
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- … letter from John Scott, 25 September 1872 . No letter from Hooker referring to Scott’s drawings has been found, but Hooker may have mentioned the subject during his visit to CD from 7 to 11 September 1872 (see Emma Darwin’s diary ( DAR 242)). Expression was published on 26 November 1872 ( Freeman 1977 ), but CD’s publisher had already received 100 copies of the book (see letter from R. F. Cooke, …
From C. C. Blake 20 February 1871
Summary
Has just received copy of CD’s work [Descent].
Can corroborate artificial compression of skull practised by Indians.
May have to modify his earlier published opinions on CD’s views.
Author: | Charles Carter Blake |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 199 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7495 |
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