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To R. F. Cooke   6 October 1875

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Oct 6. 75

My dear Sir

I fear Var: under Dom: will not be ready for yr sale, unless you can get the printers to send proofs more quickly.1 I have only corrected to Ch X as yet, & the corrections have been very slight, with only one sheet revised; but the corrections will I fear be heavier in the remainder, as much more has been added & omitted. The repaging of the index will also take up much of Messrs Clowes time

I will write to Italy & tell the Publishers, that they can have the wood blocks for £10 on pre-payment2  I suppose that you will write about Lyell’s work, & if so please inform them of the cost of blocks & photographs of my Expression book.3 If you do not write, let me hear the cost & I will inform them

Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

PS | Let me hear the result of yr trade sale4

LS

1
William Clowes & Sons were printers to John Murray, CD’s publisher. Publication of the second edition of Variation in November would have meant that copies could be sold at Murray’s annual sale dinner (see letter from R. F. Cooke, 5 October 1875 and nn. 1 and 2).
2
Cooke had reminded CD that Murray had not been paid for stereotypes of the illustrations for the Italian translation of Variation (see letter from R. F. Cooke, 5 October 1875 and n. 4).
3
CD probably refers to a possible translation of the posthumous edition of Principles of geology by Charles Lyell (Lyell 1875). The Italian translation of Expression was published in 1878 (Canestrini and Bassani trans. 1878).
4
See n. 2, above.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10184,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10184