To George Robert Gray [4 December 1838]1
36 Great Marlborough Street
Tuesday
[Sends a few pages of proofs2 on which he asks Gray to make any observations that might occur to him (“… I am ashamed of my work, but I cannot do it better …”) and particularly requesting him to check passages in French (“… if you would compare the French sentence at p. 20 with M. D’Orbigny’s work …”)3 and Latin (“… I find I have quite forgotten the little I ever knew …”). CD also says that he is sending the manuscript of the ‘Natatores’ which Gray had said he would look at.]
Believe me | Yours truly | Chas. Darwin4
Footnotes
Bibliography
Birds: Pt 3 of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. By John Gould. Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin. London: Smith, Elder and Co. 1839–41.
Orbigny, Alcide Charles Victor Dessalines d’. 1835–47. Voyage dans l’Amérique Méridionale (le Brésil, la République orientale de l’Uruguay, la République Argentine, la Patagonie, la République du Chili, la République de Bolivia, la République du Pérou), exécuté pendant les années 1826 … 1833. 6 vols. in 7 and 4 atlases. Paris and Strasbourg: Pitois-Levrault et Cie, P. Bertrand.
Summary
Sends GRG a few pages of proofs [of Birds]. Asks him to make any observations that might occur to him and to check passages in French and Latin.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-451
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Robert Gray
- Sent from
- London, Gt Marlborough St, 36
- Source of text
- Sotheby’s (dealers) (14 December 1976)
- Physical description
- ALS ** 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 451,” accessed on 10 June 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-451.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 2
