From R. F. Cooke   26 October 1872

50A, Albemarle Street, London, W.

Octr. 26 1872

My dear Sir

I dont quite understand about M. Reinwald.

He has had a perfect set of the sheets of your new work & acknowledged them & he has paid for 500 sets of Heliotypes & the Electros & we hope to despatch them to him next week.1

I dont know what they cd. afford to give for an edition of only 500 Copies!!! which is what he said his edition wd. consist of.2

I send you one copy of your book by post. We have 100 Copies here now.

Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke

C. Darwin Esq

1
See letter from C.-F. Reinwald, 26 September 1871, and letter to R. F. Cooke, [25 October 1872]. CD had asked for proof-sheets of Expression to be sent to Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald.
2
No correspondence between Reinwald and Cooke or John Murray regarding payment for plates has been found in the John Murray Archive (National Library of Scotland).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8576,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8576