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To W. E. Darwin   [after 5 November 1871]1

My dear W.

You will save me an enormous loss of time.— “Copy” means M.S. & corrected Proofs.—2 For future please always send “copy” with your corrected proofs; for I will just glance at much altered parts, & then I do not remember until glancing at the old proofs.—

C. D.

Please to return Hen’s most interesting acct & the Address—3

1
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from H. E. Litchfield, [5 November 1871] (see n. 3, below).
2
William was reading the proof-sheets of the sixth edition of Origin (see letter to W. E. Darwin, 31 [October 1871]).
3
Henrietta Emma Litchfield had sent CD an address by George Tansley honouring her husband, Richard Buckley Litchfield (see letter from H. E. Litchfield, [5 November 1871).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.3 altered] after del illeg
1.3 remember] after del ‘know’
3.1 Please … Address—] not in CD’s hand

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8041,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8041