My dear Sir

Will you be so good as to make on wood copies of the cuts enclosed in blue lines in Plate to enclosed paper.— Figs 1 & 2 to stand along side one another in upper line & Fig 3 (viz a, b, c, d, e,) in lower lines— Then, a, b, c &c, could stand rather closer together.—¹

They must be fac-similes, the dark & pale purple being represented by darker & lighter shading.— The lines must all be delicate, as all are greatly magnified.² Be so kind as to put them in hand as soon as you possibly can, as I want them for a paper soon to be read before Linnean Soc.^y. Fig I & 2 & 3 might be given in type; but a & b, in fig. 2, & a, b, c, d, & e in Fig 3 must be engraved.—

Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin

I wish the pamphlet to be returned.—³ I shall soon have another sketch to be engraved.⁴