To R. F. Cooke   10 August [1872]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Aug 10th

My dear Sir

The fair way for the H: Coy: would be (& we could probably compel them to do so legally) to charge us for making 7 or 8 new negatives according to the Printed paper (though they told me they shd. not, if we took many copies) & to charge us for cutting & fixing all the negatives & lettering the Plates; & then to charge per 1000 or 5000 copies for the copies, according to the printed paper which was distinctly given me as an Estimate.—2

Yours very faithfully | C. Darwin

& we could spread the cost of negatives &c. over the copies supplied to Foreigners

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from R. F. Cooke, 9 August 1872.
2
Cooke was attempting to get an explanation from the Heliotype Company of the price for printing the photographic plates of Expression (see letter from R. F. Cooke, 9 August 1872 and n. 2).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.1 would] after del ‘to’
1.2 according … paper 1.3] interl
1.4 & lettering the Plates] interl
1.5 copies] after del ‘Plates’
& … Foreigners] added in margin

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8463,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8463