From R. F. Cooke 3 July 1875
Summary
CD’s pessimistic view [of prospective sale of Insectivorous plants] is to blame for the small printing. Murray’s printed only 1250 copies and sold 1700. A thousand more have been ordered.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 456 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10040 |
From R. F. Cooke 16 July 1875
Summary
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 |
From R. F. Cooke 29 July 1875
Summary
Sends CD specimen pages, with two different type spacings, for Climbing plants.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 459 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10100 |
From R. F. Cooke 31 July 1875
Summary
RC will confer with printer about type, etc., for reprint of Variation.
Only 250 copies remain of [2d ed. of] Descent – will print 1000 more for annual sale.
Expression does not move.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 460 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10105 |
To R. F. Cooke 4 July [1875]
Summary
Very glad about sales [of Insectivorous plants]. CD had hard work to persuade Murray to increase printing to 1250 copies, but owns he thought that number would last for eternity. U. S. publication and French, German, and Russian translations in the offing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 4 July [1875] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 332–3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10041 |
| letter | (5) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (4) |
| John Murray | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| John Murray | (1) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| John Murray |
