To R. F. Cooke   [14 August 1872]1

Leith Hill Place | Wotton | Dorking

Wednesday

My dear Sir

I have heard from my son & it has been the greatest relief to me that the estimate was a mistake.2

I enclose lettered copies of the 7 plates, to you instead of direct to the company, as I do not quite understand what you have determined about the manner of lettering. I hope I shall now cause no more trouble, & I have only further to request you to let me hear, so that I may write at once to foreign editors & inform them of the cost per 1000 copies of the 7 plates paper included.3 I think it wd be quite fair to distribute the cost of the negatives & of the 7 guineas which I have paid to Mr Rejlander4 over all the copies, as well as some slight commission to yourselves for the trouble.

You cannot imagine what a relief it has been to me to find that the H. company has wished to impose upon me.

My dear Sir | yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

LS(A)

1
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from G. H. Darwin, [13 August 1872]. In 1872, the first Wednesday following 13 August was 14 August.
2
See letter from G. H. Darwin, [13 August 1872]. George Howard Darwin had received from Cooke a revised estimate for printing the plates for Expression from the Heliotype Company (letter from R. F. Cooke to G. H. Darwin, 13 August 1872).
3
On the translations of Expression, see the letter from R. F. Cooke, 1 August 1872, nn. 5 and 8.
4
Oscar Gustaf Rejlander had supplied CD with a number of photographs for Expresssion (see Correspondence vol. 19, letter from John Murray, 31 May [1871]).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 Leith … mistake. 1.2] in CD’s hand

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8468,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8468