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To R. F. Cooke   23 October [1872]1

Sevenoaks

Oct. 23rd

My dear Sir

I am delighted at your news. I return home on Saturday, and on Monday or Tuesday will send you a list of presentation copies for London and vicinity and will have a lot of copies sent to Down for presentation abroad.2 I shall want a good many copies how many I do not yet know. I hope Mr. Murray will charge me, as if I were a bookseller purchasing at your sale, and that he will give me some copies as heretofore. I will not transmit any copies to America till the day of your sale. Very many thanks about the Appletons.3

Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

I hope the books will sell fairly well for all our sakes.

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1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from R. F. Cooke, 22 October 1872.
2
CD refers to Expression. See letter from R. F. Cooke, 22 October 1872 and n. 1. CD stayed in Sevenoaks from 5 to 26 October 1872 (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8572,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8572