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Darwin Correspondence Project

To J. V. Carus   3 August [1872]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Aug 3d

My dear Sir

As you wished for sheets as quickly as possible, I sent off this morning the 2d & 3d sheets; but these have been somewhat corrected & when I receive 2d Revise I will send them;2 but you can translate them, if you like, as the last corrections will hardly take you 14 of an hour.— As soon as I know cost of stereotype & Heliotypes, I will write to you again.—3

My dear Sir | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to J. V. Carus, 16 July 1872.
Carus was translating Expression into German. No letter from Carus requesting sheets quickly has been found, but see the letter from J. V. Carus, 16 July 1872. CD was correcting proof-sheets of Expression until 22 August (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)).

Bibliography

Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.

Summary

Has sent sheets of Expression.

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8446,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8446.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20

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