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To John Murray   3 December [1860]

Down Bromley Kent

Dec. 3d

My dear Mr Murray

In the copy of Origin sent me for correction p. 31, 32, 41, & 42 are missing.— if you can find them please send them, as it will be a bore copying them in M.S.; but it will not, of course, be worth cutting up a new copy.—

You did not answer my question in how great a hurry you are for the new Edition?—1 Shall I send the first half of sheets when ready. The corrections will enlarge volume by a dozen or so pages; there will also be a short Historical Sketch.2 I will give list of principle additions & corrections—3 I shd like words “with Corrections” on Title.—4

It will perhaps save you another note; if you will tell me to what printers I shall send sheets? Also may I direct printers to take especial & extra care of merely typical errors so that I may look only to sense; it would save me much time, & I am much pressed for time.

The Printers managed new paging of Index for last Reprint, & I must request same assistance this time.

My dear Mr Murray | Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin

I have just found an old Proof Sheet which will serve.—5

Endorsement: ‘Dec 3rd. 1860’

2
The sketch had been composed for the revised American edition of Origin and also included in the German translation (Bronn trans. 1860). See Appendix IV.
3
The third English edition gives a list of ‘Additions and corrections, to the second and third editions’ (Origin 3d ed., pp. xi–xii; Peckham ed. 1959, pp. 51–7).
4
The title page of the new edition included the words: ‘Third edition, with additions and corrections.’
5
The final sentence was written in the margin next to the first paragraph, which was then deleted by CD.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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Please cite as “DCP-LETT-3004,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-3004