From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
20 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 288
Summary:
Discusses production of plates [for Expression].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
7 Dec [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 289
Summary:
Comments on additional printing of Expression. Complains about poor quality of plates.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
8 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 143: 290
Summary:
Discusses illustrations for 2d edition of Descent.
"My nephew [Henry Parker] got into the Athenaeum with splendid success."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
10 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 291
Summary:
Is glad to have Descent cheaper and sold more largely, but would be sorry to see it printed like the Origin. "The closeness of the lines is the great fault." Fears book might be very thick. "I hear scores of people complaining of the heavy and thick books which you publish."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
23 May [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C27
Summary:
Discusses the price to be charged to Appleton’s for the plates of Insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
8 May 1871
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 289–90)
Summary:
Sends photographs he intends to use in Expression and asks for estimates of cost per thousand of each process [Woodburytype and Heliotype] suggested by RC and for different numbers of photos on each plate.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
