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To W. E. Darwin   3 [November 1871]

Friday 3d.

I hear 7 or 8 sheets have been or soon will be sent to you.1 As soon as you have corrected 3 or 4 you had better send them here.—where we remain till Friday morning.—2 The sheets are to be stereotyped.—so I am particularly glad you read them3

C. Darwin

Leith Hill Place Wotton, Dorking.—

ApcS

Postmark: NO 3 71

1
William was helping to correct proofs of Origin 6th ed. (see letter to W. E. Darwin, [November 1871]).
2
CD was at Leith Hill Place in Surrey from 3 to 10 November 1871 (‘Journal’ (Appendix II)).
3
On the use of the stereotype process for printing Origin 6th ed., see the letter from R. F. Cooke, 1 November 1871 and n. 2.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8048,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8048