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To John Murray   10 May [1859]1

Down Bromley Kent

Tuesday May 10th.

My dear Sir

I will send tomorrow (Wednesday) the six first Chapters for press.—

I will enclose my address & some few remarks for the Printers.—

I will enclose number of words as now paid to copyist for all chapters after the six first.—

I have found by experience that Printers do not in least care for authors urging on the press-work; but if you were to put this strongly before them, they would keep well ahead & not waste my time.—2 This is of real consequence for my health sake.—

With my sincere thanks for all your kindness | Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin

1
Dated by the relationship to the preceding letter.
2
CD refers to his former experience with the printing firm of William Clowes when he was seeing proofs through the press for Journal of researches 2d ed., also published by John Murray. See Correspondence vol. 3, letter to John Murray, 16 [July 1845].

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

3.1 now] interl
3.1 copyist] ‘c’ over illeg
3.1 six] ‘si’ over illeg

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-2460,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-2460