To Asa Gray   2 March [1860]1

Down.

March 2d

My dear Gray

I have had very short but sharpish touch of illness,—a slight touch of pleurisy, & am weak.—but write just to thank much for letter received today2 (your two enclosed letters have been posted) & to say that in one week I hope & think I shall send you a few more rather important additions & expansions for the “Origin”. The first & most considerable one is for p. 126. If you can anyhow manage to get this inserted I shall be very glad— It is of some pages length.—   There are a few of the most objectionable parts later in volume expanded a little.3 I am tired, so no more

C. Darwin

1
Dated by the relationship to the following letter and to the letter to Asa Gray, 8 March [1860].
2
Probably the letter from Asa Gray, 20 February 1860. CD replied to it in his next letter to Gray (letter to Asa Gray, 8 March [1860]).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-2718,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-2718