From R. F. Cooke 5 November 1881

50^A, Albemarle Street, | London, | W.

Nov 5 1881.

MEMORANDUM | From | Mr. MURRAY To | Chas Darwin Esq | Down.

Our Trade Sale was yesterday¹ & we have now sold

3500 Worms. !!!

117 Movements

180 Naturalist

600 Origin

320 Descent²

Amem

John Murray held an annual sale dinner in November for the book trade (Murray 1908–9, p. 540). The memorandum is in Cooke’s hand.

The memorandum lists the sales figures for Earthworms, Movement in plants, Journal of researches (1870), Origin (1876), and Descent 2d ed.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13460,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13460

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