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From R. F. Cooke   10 September 1881

50a, Albemarle Street, London. W.

Sepr. 10 1881

My dear Sir

We have remaining about 270 copies of the Movements of Plants.1 Perhaps the best course wd. be to work off 250 more copies & then break up the type.2

If you think so, have you any corrections you wd. like to make previously.

Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke

Chas. Darwin Esq

I send you by post an early copy of Worms, for yr approval.3 Keep it quiet. You need not return it. The price we propose is 9/-

1
Movement in plants had been published on 6 November 1880; 2000 copies were printed in 1880 (Freeman 1977).
2
In the event, a third thousand was printed in 1882 (Freeman 1977).
3
Earthworms was not published until 10 October 1881 (Freeman 1977).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13329,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13329