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To Francis Darwin   11 August [1880]1

Down.

Aug 11th.

My dear F.—

I despatch today another & not so long a Chapt. as the last.—2 You need not hurry yourself, for we go early on Saturday to Cambridge & I shall do no slips there.—3 Perhaps I may leave a set of slips on my table ready for you, if you return home before we do.— I shd like to hear your plans as soon as you have settled them. What a horrid bore it is that you have sprained your ancle; I fear that it will almost spoil your visit. Bernard is looking as jolly as possible—4 what funny things amuse a child— he was in repeated fits of laughter, because I could not remember Jessop5 name & said “oh dear what is his name”— Do it again, was said many times & I had to re-act my forgetfulness.—

I have now slips of only 2 last & not very long Chapters to correct, but almost all the revises, which require more work that I had expected. In the last set of slips from you the corrections were mainly erasures of sentences which were all adopted.—

Pray give my very kind remembrances to Mr & Mrs. M.6 Be sure walk from Monk Coniston by lane to the Ewe-land?7 road for the sake of view 14 of mile before you get into road.— | C. D.

Footnotes

The year is established by the reference to corrections to CD’s visit to Cambridge (see n. 3, below).
Francis was correcting proof-sheets of Movement in plants (see letter to Francis Darwin, 5 August [1880]).
CD was in Cambridge visiting Horace and Ida Darwin from 14 to 19 August (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)).
Bernard Darwin. The letter from Francis reporting a sprained ankle has not been found.
Edward Jessup farmed at Petley’s Farm, near Down House.
CD and Emma had stayed at a hotel on Victor and Victoria Alberta Alexandrina Marshall’s Monk Coniston estate in 1879 (see Correspondence vol. 27, letter to Victor Marshall, 25 August 1879).
Yewdale Road.

Summary

Dispatches a chapter [of Movement in plants] for FD to look over.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-12686
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Francis Darwin
Sent from
Down
Source of text
DAR 211: 67
Physical description
ALS 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12686,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12686.xml

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