To Edward Alfred Smith 30 June [1869]1
Caerdeon | Barmouth | N. Wales
June 30th—
Dear Sir
Absence from home has prevented me from sooner thanking you for the proofs of woodcuts, which will do very well & some seem excellently executed.2
In Fig 2a. I think the fig of the female would be a good deal improved, if made rather less dark; she now looks much more massive than the male.— Please observe that the ♂ must be removed.—
I must have these proofs or others returned to me: Be so kind as to attend to this.—
Please, also, be so good as to return the M.S. list of specimens or instructions for the wood cuts; for I have forgotten the names of some of the species figured.3
Please address the returned M.S. to address above given which will be my address for all this month.
I am much obliged for your assistance: I shall probably, but not certainly, require a few more cuts; but my work has lately been much delayed by ill-health.—
Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
P.S. | I think I formerly returned a proof for correction, & a revise was never sent me.— When I get my M.S. list, I can look over the proofs, & ascertain whether I have copies of all.—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
Summary
Thanks EAS for excellent proofs of woodcuts [for Descent].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6807
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Edward Alfred Smith
- Sent from
- Caerdeon
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.372)
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6807,” accessed on 19 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6807.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17