To Francis Darwin 30 April [1875]1
Ap. 30th
My dear F.
I send today registered a chapter.2 It will be a fearful grind. There never was anything so dull (& the 2 next chapters will be as bad, afterwards better); but in small-type-part, style really does not signify, if intelligible, for no one except a lunatic will read it.— There is a bad error at p. 86 opposite where I have written “error”; a higher milligramm being given for a lower fraction: please recalculate; I suspect the 2 figures have been placed in reversed positions, if so correct thus3
Tr/.
Your worn out, disgusted & affectionate old Father | C.D.
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Francis Darwin, 1 and 2 May [1875].
Francis was correcting the proof-sheets of Insectivorous plants (see letter from Francis Darwin, 1 and 2 May [1875]).
The correction has not been identified.
Manuscript Alterations and Comments
1.4 opposite … “error”] interl
1.6 correct] above del ‘alter’
Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9958B,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on