To W. E. Darwin   31 [October 1871]

In proofs look to Running Headings on pages & numbers of Chapters.— The Headings may get wrong in reprinting— we go to Leith Hill on Friday.—1

C. Darwin

31.

ApcS

Postmark: OC 31 71

1
William was evidently reading the proofs of the sixth edition of Origin. The Darwins stayed with Josiah Wedgwood III and Caroline Wedgwood at Leith Hill Place in Surrey from Friday 3 to Friday 10 November 1871 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)).

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