To Friedrich Hildebrand 22 July [1866]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
July 22.
My dear Sir
I received the enclosed from Dr Masters this morning & have read it again with extreme interest. It will be most useful for me to quote.2
In the paragraph marked 4 I think there is a serious mis-print of two instead of ten. 3 I hope it will not be too late for correction, if you will be so good as immediately to return the enclosed to me. I have also suggested with pencil a few trifling corrections, as more usual expressions not but that you write excellent English.
Will you be so good as to tell me where your paper on Oxalis is published, as I suppose you cannot send me a copy.4
Believe me my dear Sir | yours faithfully | Charles Darwin
P.S. I have only recently seen a kind & favourable review on my Lythrum paper in the Bot: Zeitung, & which from the initials I suppose was written by you.5
Footnotes
Bibliography
‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria’: On the sexual relations of the three forms of Lythrum salicaria. By Charles Darwin. [Read 16 June 1864.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 8 (1865): 169–96. [Collected papers 2: 106–31.]
Summary
Points out an error in proof-sheets of Hildebrand’s paper on Corydalis cava (Hildebrand 1866d) and suggests some improvements to the English.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5163F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Courtesy of Eilo Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018.)
- Physical description
- LS(A) 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5163F,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5163F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14