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Summary
Asks FD to check whether a Latin sentence is correct.
Transcription
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Aug 30
My dear Frank
Will you look over the enclosed Latin sentence & see that it is correct.f2 If any of your Classical friends are up, perhaps you cd. get one to glance over it.—f3 Please return it tolerably soon.
In Haste Yours affectly. | C. Darwin
Footnotes
- f1
- The date range is established by the reference to Francis Darwin’s being at Cambridge (see n. 3, below).
- f2
- The enclosure has not been found. It may have been the text of Descent 2: 345, n. 53, an account of steatopygia that CD had translated into Latin in order to disguise content considered indelicate (see letter from John Murray, 10 October [1870] and n. 3).
- f3
- Francis went up to Cambridge on 12 October 1866 and was admitted as a student at Trinity College, Cambridge on 29 September 1866; he graduated in December 1870 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242); Alum. Cantab.; Cambridge University calendar).