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From R. F. Cooke   12 June 1880

50A, Albemarle St. | W.

June 12. 1880

My dear Sir

Mr Murray gives his consent with much pleasure to Mr Charles in regard to the Extracts he wishes to make from The Naturalists Voyage.1

The Electros from “Climbing Plants” were sent to Mr Dallas on Thursday.2

We will do up a few copies of the reprint of “Forms of Flowers” & send you a copy, but it wd. be unwise to send one to Nature at present if they were to notice it, because we should have to take back any copies remaining in the hands of the booksellers.3

Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke

Chas. Darwin Esq

1
In his letter to John Murray, 11 June 1880, CD asked for permission for Robert Fletcher Charles to publish extracts from Journal of researches (1860) in his textbooks (Charles ed. 1880–3).
2
See letter to John Murray, 9 June 1880 and n. 2. CD had asked Murray to provide illustrations from Climbing plants 2d ed. for an article by Francis Darwin on climbing plants (F. Darwin 1880c) in the Popular Science Review, which was edited by William Sweetland Dallas.
3
In the letter to John Murray, 9 June 1880, CD had asked for copies of Forms of flowers 2d ed. to be sent to himself, the journal Nature and the Linnean Society. It was an accepted practice for publishers to replace existing editions when a new edition appeared; see, for example, the Bookseller, 28 October 1861, p. 575.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12631,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12631