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From R. F. Cooke   7 October 1881

50A, Albemarle Street, London. W.

Octr. 7 1881

My dear Sir

It may interest you to learn that we have now subscribed your new work to the Booksellers & the result is, that we propose to print off 500 more copies.1

With the copies sent to you & your friends & to the Reviews, which come to 100, we have sold about 1200 besides.2

Have you therefore any corrections to make in the type?

We dont propose to print off more, because you may by & bye, receive some suggestions or corrections from your friends.

We printed as you know 1000 & the type is standing.3

Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke

Chas. Darwin Esq

1
In the event, there were four further printings of Earthworms in 1881; the fourth and fifth thousand had errata corrections made (Freeman 1977). CD also added some new material to the fifth thousand (see, for example, letter from J. F. Simpson, 8 November 1881 and n. 2).
2
For CD’s presentation list for Earthworms, see Appendix IV.
3
John Murray usually kept the type of CD’s books standing in case CD wanted to make corrections in later print runs (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 28, letter from R. F. Cooke, 10 November 1880).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13374,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13374