To R. F. Cooke   14 January [1871]1

Down, Beckenham, Kent. S.E.

Jan. 14th.

My dear Sir

I am much obliged for your clear answers to all my queries.2 I return your list of Periodicals; two are extinct: I have marked in pencil the Echo, as I know Miss Cobbe, who writes largely and well in it, is much interested on several of my points.3 I should think Macmillan’s Magazine was worth sending to.4 I feel sure the Journal of Anthropology would be and would give good Review.5 Please attend to Memorandum of address of Dr. C. Carter Blake.6

Your offer of 25 copies for the Edition I consider very handsome, and I shall want about 40–50 more at 16s. as you say, &c.

I am utterly ashamed at my corrections: they have half killed me, and yet I laboured hard at the MS., and had it fairly copied, and then corrected and recorrected it. I am glad that you will stir up Mr. Dallas.7

Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

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1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from R. F. Cooke, 13 January 1871.
3
Frances Power Cobbe reviewed Descent in the Theological Review 8 (1871): 167–92, not in the London newspaper, the Echo. See also Correspondence vol. 18, letters to F. P. Cobbe, 23 March [1870?] and 20 August [1870], and letter from F. P. Cobbe, 28 March [1870?].
4
A review of Descent appeared in Macmillan’s Magazine 24 (1871): 45–51.
5
In 1871, the Journal of Anthropology merged with the Journal of the Ethnological Society of London to become the Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (Stocking 1987, p. 256). None of these journals published a review of Descent.
6
Charles Carter Blake was a founding fellow of the Anthropological Society of London.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7441,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7441