To J. S. Henslow   [23 September 1837]

My dear Henslow

I am greatly obliged to you for allowing me to send the slips to you first; for now all will go on capitally.— I shall leave London on Monday & shall tell the printers henceforward to send the slip to you.—

I will keep an account of how many you receive. In case you should be busy or unwell &c & have not time to look over the slip any day, I think it will be best to forward it uncorrected & not keep it, for the printers are so savage. I only pray that all readers are not so sharp-sighted as you, otherwise they will I fear find a good many errors in the slips, which I sent, whilst you were at Liverpool.— What a very difficult thing it is to write correctly, I am only just beginning to feel my own inaccuracies.

The slip I send by this post, is corrected all but a column and a half.— Will you forward it to Shrewsbury.—

I am sorry you should have had the trouble of writing to M^r Rice. My father wants to see me, else I know nothing I should have enjoyed more than paying you a visit & to “see how comfortable” you are.— I have been working all day till I am quite tired.—

Yours most truly | Chas Darwin

Remember me most kindly to M^rs Henslow, & give my best love to my dear little grave Miss Anny.—