To Edwin Lankester, Ray Society 22 July [1851]
Down Farnborough Kent
July 22d
My dear Sir
Many thanks for your note: do not trouble yourself to answer my second one.— As I shall bring up M.S. last day of this month, & as you will keep it a week & proofs never come thick for another week, I shall gain the time wanted for a bit of Anatomy—
I will see that you soon receive Proofs of the 8 Plates now engraved, but not finished off.— I have entirely failed in getting materials for the one coloured Plate which I wished for, so none will be coloured.1 There will be 10 Plates altogether & hereafter I will address you for Council to settle whether I must pay for the extra one or not— The non-colouring will, I hope, save much expence.—
Mr Sowerby comes here tomorrow to complete the drawings for the two Plates not yet engraved.—
Your’s very truly | C. Darwin
Many thanks about Woodcuts.—
Footnotes
Summary
Will bring MS [of vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia] on the last day of July, and proofs of the eight plates now engraved will be sent soon. CD has failed to get materials for the one coloured plate he wanted, so none will be in colour. There will be ten altogether. He will ask later whether he must pay for the extra one. G. B. Sowerby Jr comes next day to complete drawings for two not yet engraved.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1444
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Edwin Lankester; Ray Society
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1444,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1444.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5
