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From W. E. Darwin   6 November 1871

Bank, Southampton,

Nov 6 1871

My dear Father,

I send you off proofs by afternoon post.1 The original & the other copy of proof I send tonight.

The third copy of proof I keep. I have not had the diagram by me to check the letters & figures by. I see they say it will be about 400 hundred only, quite a moderate book.2

I will check the letters with the diagram in my 5th edition tonight.3

I have been down to Bournemouth for a Sunday & found Edmund pretty brisk.4

Your affect son | W E Darwin

1
William was correcting proofs of Origin 6th ed. (see this volume, Supplement, letter from W. E. Darwin, [3 November 1871]).
2
Origin 6th ed. was 458 pages long with index and glossary (not including preliminaries); it contained one fold-out diagram between pp. 90 and 91.
3
In Origin 5th ed. the diagram appears between pp. 132 and 133.
4
Edmund Langton. Henrietta Emma Darwin had remarked on his poor health in her letter of 21 March [1871] (this volume, Supplement).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8040F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8040F