To Smith, Elder & Co. 15 May 1876
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
May 15. 76
Dear Sir
The Geolog: Soc will lend us the three wood-blocks, & send you the cliches, so that I have been able to prepare the sheets for the printers.1 They are dispatched to you, registered, by this post, together with title, preface &c. If you think you can improve the title, or have any kind of suggestions to make, I shall be glad to profit by them.2 I have appended, according to my usual custom, a list of my works, but I do not care about its insertion, if you prefer to confine the list to books published by yourself.3
Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
P.S. I have added a memorandum for the Reader or Compositor.
P.S. What shall you do for a copy of the coloured Section Pl. I. S. America?4
If you cannot get a copy I must cut mine out of my book.
By the way, no doubt I shall have to beg you to sell stereotypes of all the Plates & wood cuts for the German Edition.5
Footnotes
Bibliography
Geological observations 2d ed.: Geological observations on the volcanic islands and parts of South America visited during the voyage of H.M.S. ‘Beagle’. By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1876.
South America: Geological observations on South America. Being the third part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle, under the command of Capt. FitzRoy RN, during the years 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1846.
Volcanic islands: Geological observations on the volcanic islands, visited during the voyage of HMS Beagle, together with some brief notices on the geology of Australia and the Cape of Good Hope. Being the second part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle, under the command of Capt. FitzRoy RN, during the years 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1844.
Summary
Discusses corrections and illustrations [for Volcanic islands and parts of South America, 2d ed. (1876)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10507
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Smith, Elder & Co
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- National Library of Scotland (MS.23181, ff.26–30 (S. E. & Co. work slip, ff.26–27, letter ff.28–29, address envelope f.30))
- Physical description
- LS(A) 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10507,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10507.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24