To Asa Gray 4 [November 1876]¹

4^th

I send by this post rest of sheets, some not proofread, but corrected. Title & Index shall be sent hereafter.—²

C. Darwin

Down.

Footnotes

The month and year are established by the postmark and by the relationship between this letter and the letter to Asa Gray, 28 October 1876.

CD was sending Gray proof-sheets of Cross and self fertilisation (letter to Asa Gray, 28 October 1876). Gray had asked for them to be sent within thirty days in his letter of 12 October 1876; this postcard was franked in New York on 15 November (as well as in Beckenham on 4 November).

Cross and self fertilisation: The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1876.

Sends some sheets [of Cross and self-fertilisation].

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10662,” accessed on 15 April 2021, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-10662.xml

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