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Summary
Prefers not to send her proof-slips of the present chapter [of Variation], which has been enormously altered, but will be glad to have her see slips and revises in future.
Transcription
July 26th
My dear Etty.—
You are a very good girl to wish for remaining slips of present chapter, but they are enormously altered & 10 folio pages of MS added, & the slips themselves have had to be cut into pieces & rearranged, so I will not send them.f1
But for the future I shall be only too glad for you to see the slips, as well as Revises.— I will either keep, according to quantity finished, the whole of present chapter till your return, or send part to you.—
All your remarks, criticisms doubts & corrections are excellent, excellent, excellent
Yours affectly. | C. D.
Endorsement: Endorsement: `1867′
Footnotes
- f1
- Henrietta was reading the proof-sheets of Variation. She spent the second half of July visiting Devon and Cornwall; in a letter to her brother George Howard Darwin she mentioned having `11 pages of proof to do’ (letter to G. H. Darwin, 23 July [1867], DAR 245: 280). CD paid Henrietta £20 for correcting the proofs (Browne 2002, p. 407). On Henrietta’s contribution as editor to CD’s work, see Browne 2002, pp. 347–9.