From R. F. Cooke   9 October 1871

50A, Albemarle Street, London, W.

Octr. 9 1871

My dear Sir

If you will send up the first 6 Chapters of “Origin” I will give Messrs. Clowes’ orders to commence setting them up at once.1

Mr Murray thinks a Glossary might be advisable, but that it shd. not exceed from 6 to 10 pages & that if Mr Dallas was to be offered £10– for it, it wd. be a liberal sum, & that he shd. agree to finish it out of hand by a certain day?2

I am sorry to hear you have been so poorly as I hoped your Guildford visit wd. set you up.3

Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke

C. Darwin Esq

1
See letter to John Murray, 6 October [1871]. Cooke refers to the sixth edition of Origin; William Clowes & Sons were Murray’s printers.
2
See letter to John Murray, 6 October [1871]. Cooke refers to William Sweetland Dallas. The glossary was twelve pages long.
3
From 28 July to 25 August 1871, CD and his family stayed at Albury, Surrey, about four miles from Guildford (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7996,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7996