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To Francis Darwin   25 September [1876]1

Dear F.

I shall not have any Orchid Proofs for a long time, as I have not yet even sent M.S. to Printers.2

Your corrections are very good & very useful3

C.D.

I send today Chapt. XI., a very short one.—4

Sept 25

Footnotes

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, 16 September [1876].
2
Orchids 2d ed. was published in January 1877 (Publishers’ circular, 1 February 1877, p. 93).
4
In the published version, chapter 11 was twenty-one pages long.

Bibliography

Cross and self fertilisation: The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1876.

Orchids 2d ed.: The various contrivances by which orchids are fertilised by insects. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition, revised. London: John Murray. 1877.

Summary

FD’s corrections for Orchids [1877] are all very good and useful.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-10617
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Francis Darwin
Sent from
Down
Source of text
DAR 211: 12
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10617,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10617.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24

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