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From R. F. Cooke   10 August 1875

50A, Albemarle St. | W.

Augt. 10. 1875

My dear Sir

Mr Clowes1 has been here today with his specimens of type for “Variations” & I now enclose them to you.

The page of No 1 is in the same type as “Insectivorous Plants”, but is wider & less spaced out, so as to get in more.2

I am inclined myself to No 2, if you dont dislike the various types.

As to “Climbing Plants” I suppose we had better keep it up in type & print off 1500 No, taking off a set of stereotypes for Appletons.3

Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke

Chas Darwin Esq

CD annotations

Top of letter: ‘When send 1st. Vol.’ pencil
2
The page-proofs of the second edition of Variation are in DAR 213.11 together with eight pages in a more widely spaced type. See also letter from R. F. Cooke, 6 August 1875 and n. 3.
3
The US edition of Climbing plants was published by D. Appleton & Co. in 1876 from stereotypes of Climbing plants 2d ed. provided by John Murray (Freeman 1977; see also letter from R. F. Cooke, 3 August 1875).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10113,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10113