To H. E. Darwin [March] 18701
Spring 1870
My dear Hen.
I have worked through, (& it is hard work) half of the 2d Chapter on mind, & your corrections & suggestions are excellent.2 I have adopted the greater number, & I am sure that they are very great improvements.— Some of the transpositions are most just. You have done me real good service; but by Jove how hard you must have worked & how thoroughily you have mastered my M.S. I am pleased with this Chapter now that it comes fresh to me.—
Your affectionate, admiring & obedient | Father, C. D.
All is as clear as daylight— your plan of putting corrections saves me a world of trouble, by just as much as it must have caused you.— N.B. you can write, I see, a perfectly clear hand, as in all the corrections.—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
Summary
Responds to her suggested corrections [of Descent].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7123
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Henrietta Emma Darwin/Henrietta Emma Litchfield
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 185: 58
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7123,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7123.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18
