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To Leonard Darwin   26 July [1872]1

[Down.]

July 26

[…]

I do not like the style in several places, but I cannot improve it without too great changes, even if I could do so by any change— I am sick of the subject, and myself, and the world—2

C. D.

Copy incomplete

1
The year is established from handwritten notes on the copy suggesting that this letter was written when Leonard was reading proof-sheets of Expression, which was published in November 1872 (Freeman 1977). See also this volume, Supplement, letter to Leonard Darwin, 11 July [1872]; the two letters were copied on the same sheet.
2
See also Correspondence vol. 20, letter to H. E. Litchfield, 25 July 1872.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8435,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8435