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From R. F. Cooke   3 August 1875

50A, Albemarle St. | W.

Augt. 3. 1875

My dear Sir

Mr Murray will be very willing to make the same arrangement with Messrs. Appletons for the “Climbing Plants” as with the “Insectivorous Plants” in proportion to the expenses.1

There is no hurry about the reprint of the “Descent” & there will be no difficulty about correcting the plates, or even taking out matter, provided always you fill up the space with new matter to the same quantity.2

I have not yet seen Mr Clowes about the “Variations”3

Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke

Chas Darwin Esq

CD annotations

1.1 Messrs. Appletons 1.2] underl red crayon
1.2 Climbing] underl red crayon
1
Insectivorous plants was published by John Murray in London on 2 July 1875 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). D. Appleton & Co., CD’s US publishers, paid £50 for stereotype plates (Insectivorous plants US ed.; letter from R. F. Cooke, 3 July 1875). Appleton published the US edition of Climbing plants 2d ed. in 1876 (Climbing plants US ed.). See Freeman 1977.
2
See letter from R. F. Cooke, 31 July 1875 and n. 2; no intervening letter from CD about corrections for a reprint of Descent 2d ed. has been found.
3
Edward Arnott Clowes of the printing firm William Clowes & Sons. See letter from R. F. Cooke, 31 July 1875. Variation 2d ed. was published in February 1876 (Publishers’ circular, 1 March 1876, p. 168); it was printed by William Clowes & Sons.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10107,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10107