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To R. F. Cooke   16 October 1880

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)

Oct. 16th 1880

My dear Sir

You will see by the enclosed that M. Reinwald wants to publish a French Translation of my book, but is a little doubtful, & very naturally so, on account of expense.—1 I wish, therefore, to supply him with stereotypes of the 195 cuts at prime cost. Will be so good as to find out from Mess Clowes2 what the cost is, & inform me, & I will write to M. Reinwald.

My dear Sir | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

P.S. | Please make memorandum that I shall require 60 copies with edges cut for presentation.—3

1
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald had asked CD to pass on a letter to CD’s publisher, John Murray, concerning the sole rights to the French translation of Movement in plants (Heckel trans. 1882). Reinwald’s letter to Murray was enclosed in the letter from C.-F. Reinwald, 14 October 1880.
2
William Clowes & Sons was the printing company used by Murray.
3
See Appendix IV for CD’s presentation list for Movement in plants. Books were usually sold with their pages uncut. For CD’s plea to publishers to sell all books with cut pages, see Correspondence vol. 15, letter to Athenæum, 1 January 1867.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added
3.1 make] after del ‘ha’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12761,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12761