To Francis Darwin   11 August [1880]¹

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 sh^d 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 M^r & M^rs. M.⁶ Be sure walk from Monk Coniston by lane to the Ewe-land?⁷ road for the sake of view $\frac{1}{4}$ of mile before you get into road.— | C. D.