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From R. F. Cooke   23 February 1876

50A, Albemarle Street, London. W.

Feby 23 1876

My dear Sir

I enclose you Mr Murrays cheque for £105 for the present edition of yr “Descent of Man”.1

Yesterday I sent to Messrs. Clowes, the corrections for yr Origin of Species & Climbing Plants & ordered them to print off

  • 1250 Origin
  • 500 Climbing Plants
  • 1000 Naturalists Voyage2

Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke

Chas. Darwin Esq

1
See letter from R. F. Cooke, 21 February 1876. CD recorded the receipt of £105 from John Murray in his Account books–banking account (Down House MS) on 28 February 1876.
2
William Clowes & Sons were printers to John Murray. The final corrected version (eighteenth thousand) of the sixth edition of Origin (Origin (1876)), a reprint of Climbing plants 2d ed., and a reprint (eleventh thousand) of Journal of researches (1860) were published in 1876 (Freeman 1977).

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