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To David Forbes   31 July [1870]1

Down. | Beckenham | Kent. S.E.

July 31st

My dear Mr Forbes

I write a line to thank you very sincerely for your great kindness in sending me the proof-sheets of your paper on the Aymaras, of which I have received up to p. 272, which I presume is not far from the end.2 It is a most interesting & valuable memoir, & I have been extremely glad to read it before going to press; but the information which you gave me was so substantially correct, that I have had to alter hardly anything. I shall, however, instead of giving some figures refer in most cases my readers to your full details.—3

Whatever share I have had in hurrying you to publish has been a right good deed on my part.—

With very true thanks | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

P.S. This appears to me an important erratum

p. 221 10 lines from bottom for longer read shorter4

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from David Forbes, 30 July 1870.
3
In Expression, p. 318, CD cites Forbes 1870a on the subject of blushing.
4
This correction was made in the published version of Forbes 1870a.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 Beckenham] before del ‘Bromley.’
1.4 but] ‘b’ over ‘w’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7292,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7292