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From R. F. Cooke   19 October 1880

50A. Albemarle St. | W.

Oct 19. 1880

My dear Sir

I return you Reinwald’s letter & beg to inform you that the actual cost of making a set of Electros from the woodcuts in yr new book will be £10.1

But really you should make these foreign publishers pay more for at the usual rate of charging per inch &c they wd. be over £40.

Suppose you mentioned £20.

We have a set now ready to go to Stuttgart & shd. like to know your feelings as to the German Translation also.

We thought of charging them £25 or £30.

This sum would help to repay your own expenses on the work.

Your wishes as to 60 copies with cut edges shall be attended to.2

The work is to be bound up in green as usual I suppose? What shall the lettering on the back

The

Movement

in

Plants

———

Darwin.

Messrs. Clowes3 tell us they have just received the last sheets from you,

Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke

Chas. Darwin Esq

CD annotations

8.4 Movement] altered to ‘Movements’ pencil
8.5 in] altered to ‘of’ pencil

End of letter: ‘Review | List of Copies | 25 Koch’4 pencil

1
See letter to R. F. Cooke, 16 October 1880 and n. 1. The electrotypes were for the French translation of Movement in plants (Heckel trans. 1882), published by Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald.
2
CD had requested sixty presentation copies of Movement in plants with the pages already cut (see letter to R. F. Cooke, 16 October 1880 and n. 3).
3
William Clowes & Sons were the printers used by John Murray publishers.
4
CD agreed that his German publisher, Eduard Koch, should pay £25 for the use of the electrotypes (see letter to R. F. Cooke, 20 October 1880).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12765,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12765