My dear Sir

I am heartily glad for your sake & my own at the sale of the book— I think you are right to publish a rather smaller 2^nd Edit. for the public will soon find out that it is dull, though I maintain that it is valuable in a scientific point of view.¹

I beg leave to acknowledge & thank you for your bill for £300.² Considering the great expense this seems a fair profit, but I hope it will be greater for the next edition. I have sent to Mess^rs Clowes by today’s post a few corrections, but they will not break the pages.³ The index is admirable; by the way M^r Dallas said to me in a letter rec^d yesterday that he had not yet heard from you.⁴ If not too much trouble, I sh^d like to hear what the corrections alone cost, so that I may hold them in terrorem over myself for my next book.⁵

Many thanks for your kind congratulations about my son.⁶ You know I am always greedy for presentation copies so I hope you will give me a few.

I am extremely pleased & remain my dear Sir | yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin