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To J. J. Moulinié   4 January 1872

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Jan 4. 1872

My dear Sir

I am much obliged for your letter. I was not at all aware that the headings of the chapters had been printed off. Under these circumstances I wd suggest that you shd print the new part of the new chapter VII as an appendix, & explain the circumstances.1 You could also correct all the part that is not printed off in accordance with the new edition; & the corrections are not very numerous. I hope soon to send you some new sheets; but the printers have been unusually slow over this vol.

As far as I can judge the new part of Chapter VII wd be worth publication in France.2 I hope you will soon have more leisure. Mrs Darwin joins me in thanking you for your good wishes—

Believe me my dear Sir | yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

LS

1
See letter from J. J. Moulinié, 1 January 1872 and nn. 2 and 3. Moulinié was translating Origin 6th ed. into French (Moulinié trans. 1873).
2
Part of the new chapter 7 in the English edition of Origin 6th ed. consisted of modified extracts from chapter 4 of the previous editions; the rest was new. Moulinié had already translated chapter 4 from Origin 5th ed. when CD announced that a sixth was to be published, and he translated the whole of chapter 7 of the Origin 6th ed. as the last chapter in his translation.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8142,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8142