To G. C. Robertson   22 May 1877

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

May 22d 77

My dear Sir

I return the proofs, with some corrections which will require looking to in the revise, if you will be so good as to do so.— I am gratified that you should think my little paper worth inserting in your Journal, & I can assure you that I took pains to observe accurately.—1

If compatible with the rules of your Journal, I shd be very glad to have 25 or even 30 copies, struck off at my expence, as several of my many relations wd. like to have a copy

My dear Sir | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

See letter to G. C. Robertson, 27 April 1877 and n. 1. ‘Biographical sketch of an infant’ was published in the July 1877 issue of Mind.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

2.2 struck] after del ‘p’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10968,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10968