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From R. F. Cooke   9 August 1875

50A, Albemarle St.

Augt. 9. 1875

My dear Sir

Please to sign the enclosed papers before a witness & return them for us to complete the registration for France & Germany.1

Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke

Chas Darwin Esq

1
The enclosures probably related to the German and French translation rights for Insectivorous plants (Carus trans. 1876a; Barbier trans. 1877). John Murray had previously offered to negotiate translation rights in CD’s works on his behalf (see Correspondence vol. 20, letter to R. F. Cooke, [25 October 1872]). Under the terms of agreements with France and Germany, the intention to reserve copyright in translations had to be declared by the author on the title page of the work, and copies had to be registered in Paris and Berlin (see Nowell-Smith 1968, pp. 32 and 62).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10112,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10112