To Henrietta Emma Darwin   26 July [1867]

July 26th

My dear Etty.—

You are a very good girl to wish for remaining slips of present chapter, but they are enormously altered & 10 folio pages of MS added, & the slips themselves have had to be cut into pieces & rearranged, so I will not send them.1

But for the future I shall be only too glad for you to see the slips, as well as Revises.— I will either keep, according to quantity finished, the whole of present chapter till your return, or send part to you.—

All your remarks, criticisms doubts & corrections are excellent, excellent, excellent

Yours affectly. | C. D.

Endorsement: ‘1867’

1
Henrietta was reading the proof-sheets of Variation. She spent the second half of July visiting Devon and Cornwall; in a letter to her brother George Howard Darwin she mentioned having ‘11 pages of proof to do’ (letter to G. H. Darwin, 23 July [1867], DAR 245: 280). CD paid Henrietta £20 for correcting the proofs (Browne 2002, p. 407). On Henrietta’s contribution as editor to CD’s work, see Browne 2002, pp. 347–9.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

2.2 either] first ‘e’ over ‘k’
2.3 chapter] after del ‘til’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-5585,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-5585