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From R. F. Cooke   14 December 1875

50A, Albemarle Street, London. W.

Decr. 14 1875

My dear Sir

As near as I can ascertain, we shall have remaining, (after supplying all our present orders) about

130 Climbing Plants &

100 Origin of Species

so I think on yr return home, it would be well for you to let Clowes have any corrections which you want made.1

Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke

Chas. Darwin Esq

P.S. while writing this Messrs. Longman & Co2 have sent up for 25 copies of Climbing Plants, so that is reduced almost to 100

1
Cooke refers to Climbing plants 2d ed. and Origin 6th ed.; in 1876, John Murray published the eighteenth thousand of Origin 6th ed., the last issue to which CD made corrections, and issued a further 500 copies of Climbing plants 2d ed., which had been published in November 1875 (Freeman 1977). William Clowes was John Murray’s printer.
2
Longman, Green, and Co. were London booksellers and publishers.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10297,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10297