From R. F. Cooke   22 June 1869

50a, Albemarle Street, London, W.

June 22 1869

My dear Sir

You will have received a copy by Saturday post of the new edition of the Origin.1

I merely write a line to say all your presentation copies have been sent out & that we shall publish the work this week.

We sent by yr directions a set of Electros in Jany last, to Bologna. Are we to make any charge for it & if so to whom?2 At present we have only a memorandum in our books of their being sent.

Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke

Charles Darwin Esq

1
Cooke refers to the fifth edition of Origin. The Saturday before 22 June 1869 would have been 20 June.
2
The electrotypes were presumably sent in connection with a prospective translation into Italian of Variation (see Correspondence vol. 16, letter from Giovanni Canestrini, 14 May 1868).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-6794,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-6794