To R. F. Cooke   9 March [1869]1

Down Bromley | Kent.

Mar 9.

Dear Sir

I think

For

Darwin

Müller

is the best form of lettering for the back.2

Please to hurry on the binding & have the goodness to send me the nine copies as soon as you can addressed differently to what I before told you viz.3

C. Darwin Esq

Orpington Station

Kent. | per South East Railway.

Be so kind as to inform me when the parcel is sent off that I may know when to send for them.

Dear Sir | yours faithfully | Ch Darwin

Please attend to copy for Mr Spence Bate & to 3 for Mr Dallas & for Reviews4

LS(A)

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from R. F. Cooke, 10 March 1869.
2
CD refers to the lettering on the spine of Dallas trans. 1869, the translation of Fritz Müller’s Für Darwin (F. Müller 1864a).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.6 nine] interl

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-6648,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-6648