To G. R. Gray [6 December 1838]1
My dear Sir
I send you a few more pages of the Proofs, which if you will have the kindness to look over, will be all that I shall put in the next number; & a third number must be a fat one to make up for the two first being rather thin.— Will you see whether the latin adverbs are properly accented, for I know no more than the Man in the Moon, how they should be.—
Ever yours | C. Darwin 36 Great Marlbro’ St
Thursday
Footnotes
References in the letter make clear that the correspondent is George Robert Gray, who was finishing the descriptions for the second number of Birds. In his letter to Emma Wedgwood, [30 November – 1 December 1838], CD mentions working on the ‘hawks and owls’, described in that number, which makes 6 December, the following Thursday, the likely date.
Summary
Sends proofs [of Birds, no. 2]. Asks GRG to check Latin accents.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-454
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Robert Gray
- Sent from
- London, Gt Marlborough St, 36
- Source of text
- Leiden University Libraries (BPL 885 / Darwin s.a)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 454,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-454.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 2
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