From R. F. Cooke   28 June 1875

50A, Albemarle Street, London. W.

June 28 1875

My dear Sir

The price of your new work shall not exceed 14/–1

Our only wish was to obtain a better return for you, which 1/– more would give.

The other copies will not look so clumsy as the one I sent which was not properly pressed.

Did you not quote a price to Appletons, as to what the set of stereotype plates would cost them, & was it £50 or less.?2

The Foreign copies shall not be posted before Thursday or Friday.3

Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke

Chas. Darwin Esq

CD annotations

Top of letter: ‘a little over 68 | a little over 78 distributed evenly | 612/8’ pencil
1
CD had requested that the price of Insectivorous plants be reduced from 15s. to 14s. (see letter to R. F. Cooke, 27 June [1875]).
2
CD had asked Cooke to organise production of stereotype plates for his US publisher, D. Appleton & Co., in his letter to Cooke of 24 June [1875]. In a letter to Cooke of 23 May [1875], CD had suggested charging £60.
3
CD had suggested waiting until after Thursday 1 July 1875 to send foreign presentation copies of Insectivorous plants since changes to postage rates would come into effect then (see letter to R. F. Cooke, 27 June [1875] and n. 3).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10034,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10034