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 of mile before you get into road.— | C. D.
Footnotes
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