To W. E. Darwin [4 November 1871]1
[Leith Hill Place, Surrey]2
Thanks— Organisation.— Attend chiefly to sense, though it is very good to look to letters, but the Reader will to see to that,—yet might possibly overlook an error.—3 It is indeed a case of crunching bones.—
C. D.
Saturday Night.—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Fraser, Angus. 1996. A publishing house and its readers, 1841–1880: the Murrays and the Miltons. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 90: 4–47.
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Summary
Thanks WED for a correction [to proofs of Origin, 6th ed.].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8051
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Erasmus Darwin
- Sent from
- Leith Hill Place
- Postmark
- NO 5 71
- Source of text
- DAR 210.6: 134
- Physical description
- ApcS
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8051,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8051.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19