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From R. F. Cooke   27 August 1875

50A, Albemarle Street, London, W.

Augt. 27 1875

My dear Sir

The calculation of Animals & Plants is that

Vol 1 will make 444 pages
Vol 2 do 560 do

this is rather unequal   could you not manage to relieve Vol 2 & add to Vol 1 in dividing the work?1

Do you wish “Climbing Plants” to be published at once?2

Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke

C. Darwin Esq

Are stereotype plates wanted for America of “Animals & Plants” as well as “Climbing ones”?3

1
When published, the two volumes of Variation 2d ed. ran to 473 and 495 pages.
2
Climbing plants 2d ed. was, as CD had expected, not published until November 1875 (letter to J. V. Carus, 19 August 1875; Publishers’ circular, 16 November 1875, p. 932).
3
See letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 August 1875. Stereotypes of Climbing plants had been requested by the US publishers (letter from D. Appleton & Co., 16 August 1875).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10135,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10135