Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa
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Is sending sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation. He will be curious to see what AG thinks of it, as AG speaks the truth whether or not he approves. Is sick of trying to correct his "horrid bad style".
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Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Oct. 28
My dear Gray
I send by this post all the clean sheets as yet printed & I hope to send the remainder within a fortnight. Please observe that the 6 first chapters are not readable, & the 6 last very dull. Still I believe that the results are valuable. If you review the book, I shall be very curious to see what you think of it, for I care more for your judgment than for that of almost anyone else.
I know also that you will speak the truth, whether you approve or disapprove. Very few
will take the trouble to read the book, & I do not expect you to read the whole,
but I hope you will read the latter chapters.— M
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
I am so sick of correcting the press & licking my horrid bad style into intelligible English.—