To Francis Darwin 30 April [1875]1
Ap. 30th
My dear F.
I send today registered a chapter.2 It will be a fearful grind. There never was anything so dull (& the 2 next chapters will be as bad, afterwards better); but in small-type-part, style really does not signify, if intelligible, for no one except a lunatic will read it.— There is a bad error at p. 86 opposite where I have written “error”; a higher milligramm being given for a lower fraction: please recalculate; I suspect the 2 figures have been placed in reversed positions, if so correct thus3
Tr/.
Your worn out, disgusted & affectionate old Father | C.D.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Summary
Sends a chapter [of Insectivorous plants]. Never was there anything so dull, but later chapters will be better. Please correct an error on p. 86.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9958B
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Francis Darwin
- Source of text
- DAR 271.4: 9
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9958B,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9958B.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
