From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Alfred Smith
Date:
[before 30 June 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 81: 35–6
Summary:
Sends engraved plates with instructions about illustrations for Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Sends engraved plates with instructions about illustrations for Descent.
WA explains the figures he sent GC. In his experience female lambs at the time of castration outnumber the males. [Robert] Elliot differs.
Has been suffering with congestion of the brain. Moved house yesterday.
Thanks EAS for excellent proofs of woodcuts [for Descent].
Forwards a basket of eggs of pile game fowl.
Wishes Cupples had said something about health. Sends regards to Mrs Cupples.