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From R. F. Cooke   27 November 1878

50A, Albemarle Street, London. W.

Nov 27 1878

My dear Sir

Our report this year is not so satisfactory as we could wish, but I nevertheless send it to you, as you may be interested to know what we sold at our Annual Trade Sale & also the stock remaining.1

We shall have to reprint at once the “Naturalists Journal” & also the “Descent of Man” & we propose to print off 1000 copies of the latter if you have no objection.2

Have you any correction for either work?

I trust you are keeping in good health. With kind compliments | Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke

Chas. Darwin Esqr

1
The report has not been found. There is a printed list of the ‘uniform edition of Mr. Darwin’s works’ in DAR 210.14 annotated by CD with the number of copies sold and on hand in 1878. CD’s publisher, John Murray, held an annual sales dinner each November for the book trade (Murray 1908–9, p. 540).
2
Journal of researches had last been printed in 1876; the fourteenth thousand was issued under the title ‘A naturalists voyage’ in 1879. A ‘revised and augmented’ edition of Descent had been printed in 1877; the thirteenth thousand was issued in 1879. (Freeman 1977.)

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11764,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11764