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From R. F. Cooke   1 December 1877

50A, Albemarle Street, London. W.

Decr. 1 1877

My dear Sir

The present edition of “Origin” which we are just exhausting makes in all 17500 Copies.

Therefore the reprint of 2000 more will be 19500 & we may safely say on the Title page Twentieth Thousand.1

Messrs. Clowes will be able to keep up Forms of Flowers for some months longer & when we have sold off all our present copies I will remind you.2

Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke

Chas. Darwin Esq

1
The sixth edition of Origin was published in 1872. The final text with additions and corrections (eighteenth thousand) appeared in 1876; the printing Cooke refers to (twentieth thousand) was published in 1878 (Freeman 1977).
2
William Clowes & Sons were printers to John Murray. In his letter of 23 November 1877, Cooke had informed CD that the type for Forms of flowers was to be broken up; CD had replied that it was too early to stereotype the book (see letter to R. F. Cooke, 24 November 1877 and n. 3). In the event, when a second edition was produced in 1880, all new material was added to the preface (Forms of flowers 2d ed., pp. v–xii).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11264,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11264