To J. J. Moulinié   20 February [1871]1

Down. | Beckenham | Kent. S.E.

Feb 20th

My dear Sir

I have been very relax in not having written to you oftener, telling you as often as I sent off clean sheets; but in fact I have been worked half-to death.2

You will have now received the whole. To day I sent off a corrected sheet in Vol. I & some corrections for Vol. II; so that the Postscript need not be printed.3

Perhaps I may send a few more corrections in clean sheet reprinted, for the whole edition of 2500 copies have been sold before a copy has gone into the book-sellers shops.—4

I heartily wish you well through your laborious undertaking & remain | My dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from C.-F. Reinwald, 1 February 1871.
2
Moulinié was preparing the French translation of Descent (see letter from C.-F. Reinwald, 1 February 1871).
3
CD refers to corrections to Descent 1: 297 and 2: 161, 237. See letter to J. V. Carus, 15 February [1871] and n. 2.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 Beckenham] before del ‘Bromley.’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7493,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7493