My dear Sir

Will you have kindness to tell me by return of Post, whether you feel sure that more copies than the 2500 will be printed off.² I have had one sheet corrected and there are 4 or 5 other sheets with moderate corrections, which I should be glad to have proofs of immediately so that I could send them abroad for some of foreign editions.³

All the other sheets will remain just as they are. I want to do this before I come to London on Thursday next, on which day or on Friday I will call on you.⁴

Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

P.S. The books arrived last night all safe. Many thanks.⁵

The volumes look admirable; they are excellently got up in paper, printing and binding.

I hope your clerk has remembered to send Vol II to Wallace, Mivart (and Miss Cobbe, 26 Hereford Sq^r, for Theological Review)⁶

P.S. Your note just received. I will, if I possibly can, attend Athenæum and with greatest pleasure Vote for Mr. Cooke; but I cannot often go out late. I will enquire how early Ballot-Box is open.

I have by this Post written to Miss Cobbe about not publishing any Review too soon.⁷