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To J. F. Lennard from the parishioners of Down, Kent   3 April 1863

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Testimony by the parishioners of Down, Kent, to the moral character and integrity of George Snow, District Surveyor. Signed by nearly fifty local residents, including CD.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Farnaby Cator, 1st baronet; John Farnaby Lennard, 1st baronet
Date:  3 Apr 1863
Classmark:  Sotheby’s (dealers) (24 July 1995)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4074F
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Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition

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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn.  That lost list is recreated here.

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  • … Asa Gray, Dr. Hooker, and Prof. Oliver.    Page 403, par. 2, lines 15–16, substitute for ‘If …
  • … 4th ed., p. 402. 40.  p. 401. 41.  p. 403. This substitution also occurs in Origin …

Descent

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There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…

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  • … ’.    Endnotes: * Descent 2: 403: ‘When the principles of breeding and of …