To W. E. Darwin 9 January [1872]
Down
Jan. 9th
My dear William
I received this morning the last proof, & I must thank you cordially for all the labour & anxiety, which you have saved & for all grinding work which you have yourself undergone.—1 In one page a whole line had got misplaced, which I see had puzzled you & at first confounded me.—
I shall not want the Preface, Index &c looked over by you, so that your work is finally done.—
I am so glad we shall see you on Sunday.
Yours affectionately | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Summary
Thanks WED for checking through the proofs of a new [6th] edition of Origin.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8153
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Erasmus Darwin
- Sent from
- Down
- Postmark
- JA 9 72
- Source of text
- DAR 210.6: 137
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8153,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8153.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
