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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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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