From Frederick Currey 5 July 1866
3, New Square, Lincolns Inn. W.C.
July 5th. 1866
My dear Sir,
Herr Müllers paper on climbing plants is about to be printed in our Journal with such illustrations as may be necessary—1 I understand from the enclosed letter which was written by you to Mr. Kippist2 that you only consider the 3 figures marked with the blue cross necessary, (viz. No. 7, one half of No. 2, & a third not numbered) & that we may therefore strike out of the M.S. the references to the other figures—
My immediate object in writing however is to ask whether in your opinion there would be any objection to reducing the size of the figures— The Council have authorized three octavo plates, but if the three figures only are necessary, & may be reduced in size, it appears to me that one plate, or two at the outside, might be sufficient—3 In case you should like to refer to the M.S. I send it (with the drawings & your letter) by Bookpost & if you will kindly let me know what you think I shall be very much obliged—
Believe me | my dear Sir | Your’s very truly | Fredk Currey
Chas Darwin Esqr.
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Fritz Müller’s paper ["Notes on climbing plants"] is about to appear [in J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9]. Would CD approve of figures being reduced in size?
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5146
- From
- Frederick Currey
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Lincoln’s Inn
- Source of text
- DAR 161: 307
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5146,” accessed on 1 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5146.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14