To Charles James Fox Bunbury 3 December [1859]1
[Ilkley]2
Decr 3d
My dear Bunbury
… I have been much engaged … correcting proofs for 2d. edit, but I take shame to myself for not having long ago thanked you for your kind note … not that I hope to correct you. If you at all staggered I shall be quite interested …3
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
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 for note; correcting proofs for 2d ed. [of Origin].
"If your are at all staggered I shall be quite interested."
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2569
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet
- Sent from
- Ilkley
- Source of text
- Carnegie Book Shop (dealers) (catalogue 359)
- Physical description
- ALS ** 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2569,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2569.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7