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From R. F. Cooke   12 August 1875

50A, Albemarle St. London | W.

Aug 12. 1875

My dear Sir

If you can release Vol 1 of the “Variations” of course it wd. be a great advantage to begin at once, while the printers are slack of work.

We will print off 1500 No of “Climbing Plants” & stereotype the work.

Then comes the knotty point as to what we are to do in regard to Variations?1

Yrs faithfully | Robt. Cooke

Chas. Darwin Esq

1
See letter from R. F. Cooke, 10 August 1875. The printers William Clowes & Sons had provided two specimens of possible type-faces for Variation 2d ed. Variation 2d ed. was published in February 1876 (Publishers’ circular, 1 March 1876, p. 168), although it carries an 1875 imprint. Stereotype plates of Climbing plants 2d ed. were provided by the publisher, John Murray, for the US edition (Freeman 1977).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10116,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10116