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From R. F. Cooke   15 August 1877

50A, Albemarle Street, London. W.

Augt. 15 1877

My dear Sir

We have now the set of Electrotypes of the woodcuts in yr last work for Herr Koch & the cost will be 20s/-.1

It would be as well for him to say, how he wishes them sent.

Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke

Chas. Darwin Esq

We have printed 1250 Copies & not 1000 of your “Forms of Flowers”2

1
Eduard Koch was head of the German firm E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, which was publishing a collected edition of CD’s works (Carus trans. 1875–87). The translation of Forms of flowers was published as the third part of volume 9 of this edition (Carus trans. 1877e).
2
See letter from R. F. Cooke, 2 July 1877. Forms of flowers was published on 9 July 1877 (Freeman 1977).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11107,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11107