From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
2 July [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 272
Summary:
Thanks for [July 1869] issue of Quarterly Review.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
12 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 274
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
14 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 275
Summary:
Suggests periodicals to receive review copies [of Descent].
Is "ashamed at my corrections".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
17 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 276
Summary:
Discusses mailing of presentation copies [of Descent]. Sends addresses of A. R. Wallace and St George Mivart.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
30 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 277
Summary:
Asks that review copy [of Descent] be sent to F. P. Cobbe.
Discusses mailing of presentation copies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
10 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 278
Summary:
Asks that a presentation copy [of Descent?] be sent to Edward Blyth. Comments on publication.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
14 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 279
Summary:
Discusses presentation copies [of Descent]. Dallas returned proofs of index on Friday. Asks for John Stuart Mill’s address.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
26 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 281
Summary:
Suggests sending his book [Descent?] to Popular Science Review.
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
From:
Joseph Cundall
To:
Robert Francis Cooke
Date:
19 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 53.2: 120–1
Summary:
Gives cost of printing photographs [for Expression] by the Woodbury process.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
13 Oct [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 282
Summary:
First six chapters [of Origin, 6th ed.] sent to printer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
8 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 150–1
Summary:
Cannot understand the estimate of the Heliotype Company [for plates for Expression]. Discusses the original agreement as he understood it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
[after 11 Oct 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 284
Summary:
Discusses printing of Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
23 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 286
Summary:
Discusses presentation copies of Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
[25 Oct 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 285
Summary:
Comments on discussions with C. Reinwald concerning French edition of Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
27 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 287
Summary:
Discusses distribution of presentation copies of Expression. Sends instructions for mailing his copies. Discusses negotiations with C. Reinwald concerning French edition. Suggests journals to receive review copies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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