My dear Sir

In your advertisment of my Book in the Athenæum there is an absurd error (which I formerly pointed out) viz principles of .... . . Election instead of Selection. I have no objection to these “Principles” being inserted in the advertisement, but I think that you agreed with me that “The Variation of Animals & Plants under Domestication” was sufficient. for the Title.—¹

I am getting on well.— Vol. I completed. Vol. 2. all sheets corrected the first time, & nearly the half revised. I shall have finished the whole by at latest, if I keep well, by 10^th or 12^th November.— I hope you have urged M^r Dallas to lose no time about the Index, & that you have ordered the Revises to be sent to him: the Revises w^d do perfectly for Index.—² You could not, I think, have got a better man than M^r. Dallas.—

I hope to Heaven that the Book will not turn out a failure.—

My dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin