To C.-F. Reinwald   27 November 1881

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

Nov. 27th 1881

Dear Sir

I see no objection to Prof. Heckel’s Preface, which may be of use to the Book.1

If not too late I send by this Post a few additions to my book on Worms.— The Passages in the Proof-sheets are all marked, so that the small additions & corrections will cause little trouble to the Translator.—2 I have placed in same packet the proof of Prof. Heckels Preface.— I shd. much like to have copies of the Translation of the “Power of Movement”, sent to Count Saporta,. Ch. Martins & Naudin3

Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Reinwald had sent a proof copy of Édouard Heckel’s preface to the French translation of Movement in plants (Heckel trans. 1882; see letter from C.-F. Reinwald, 24 November 1881).
Reinwald was publishing the French edition of Earthworms (Lévêque trans. 1882). The additions appeared in the printing of the fifth thousand of Earthworms.
Gaston de Saporta, Charles Frédéric Martins, and Charles Victor Naudin. Martins is on CD’s presentation list for the English edition of Movement in plants (Correspondence vol. 28, Appendix IV).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13513F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13513F