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To G. R. Gray   [6 December 1838]1

My dear Sir

I send you a few more pages of the Proofs, which if you will have the kindness to look over, will be all that I shall put in the next number; & a third number must be a fat one to make up for the two first being rather thin.— Will you see whether the latin adverbs are properly accented, for I know no more than the Man in the Moon, how they should be.—

Ever yours | C. Darwin 36 Great Marlbro’ St

Thursday

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References in the letter make clear that the correspondent is George Robert Gray, who was finishing the descriptions for the second number of Birds. In his letter to Emma Wedgwood, [30 November – 1 December 1838], CD mentions working on the ‘hawks and owls’, described in that number, which makes 6 December, the following Thursday, the likely date.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.1 pages] above del ‘sheets’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-454,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-454