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DCP-LETT-9493

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 439
Summary:

In doubt about size of printing of the 2d edition of Descent. Profit on 2000 at 12s would be only £250.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9496

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
17 June [1874]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 340–1)
Summary:

Hopes a printing of 2000 copies [of Descent, 2d ed.] will be safe. Regrets price must be 12s. He is sure it is much improved.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9717

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 442
Summary:

New edition of Descent just off the press. Murray feels price must be 9s instead of 12s, if it is to sell. This will reduce profit to almost nil.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9721

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 443
Summary:

Booksellers approve of [9s] price for 2d edition of Descent. 1350 copies were sold at annual sale.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9893

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 445
Summary:

A curious alteration in the reprint of Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9944

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 448
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9989

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
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DCP-LETT-9990

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 452
Summary:

Replies to CD’s various questions and suggestions concerning publication plans for Insectivorous plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9995

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 453
Summary:

A set of electros of the woodcuts to Variation was sent to an Italian publisher in 1869, but no reply or payment has been made since then.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10001

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 454
Summary:

Asks whether enclosure [missing] has the correct title of Insectivorous plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10028

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke
Date:
24 June [1875]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 338–9)
Summary:

Insectivorous plants ready for publication. Asks price. Suggests advertisements in Nature and Gardeners’ Chronicle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10031

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 455
Summary:

Sends first copy of Insectivorous plants to CD. Price must be 15s.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10032

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke
Date:
27 June [1875]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 336–7)
Summary:

Sorry to hear price of 15s [for Insectivorous plants]. Asks that JM consider 14s. Fears small sale at 15s. It is his fault – he never can help making his books too big.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10034

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 458
Summary:

Agrees to price Insectivorous plants at 14s.

Has CD quoted a price for stereotype plates to D. Appleton?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10035

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
29 June [1875]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 334–5)
Summary:

Mentioned to Appleton only that stereotypes [for Insectivorous plants] would be provided for "a little above cost price". Glad the price of the book will be 14s. He likes making money, but cares more for wider distribution of his books. Is uneasy about sale of Insectivorous plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10040

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 456
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10041

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
4 July [1875]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 332–3)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10071

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 457
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10100

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 459
Summary:

Sends CD specimen pages, with two different type spacings, for Climbing plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10105

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 460
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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