To J. J. Moulinié 12 July [1871]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
July 12th
My dear Sir
I thank you cordially for the extremely kind manner in which you say you are willing to introduce some corrections & additions. I think I told you I shd. not print till early in the autumn.2 I will send you clean proofs, as they are printed off.
In present state of France perhaps some delay may be adviseable.— I foresee some difficulty about my chief additions, which in the English edition follows the VI Chapter & contains some pages taken out of Chapt IV.—3 When the time comes I will get you kindly to consider what had better be done.
With very many thanks, In Haste | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Origin 6th ed.: The origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. 6th edition, with additions and corrections. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
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 JJM for willingness to introduce corrections into French edition of Origin.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7859
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Jean Jacques Moulinié
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66 ff. 22-3)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7859,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7859.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19
