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A letter from Horace Darwin to Karl Pearson is kept with the manuscripts: "The Orchard, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge. / Jan 3 1923 / When we were children, we often used the blank sides of my father's M.S.S. when returned from the printers as scribbling paper. These sheets were kept by me& are from the Descent of Man. My Mother sometimes helped him and her hand writing is on the lower half of one of the pages. / Horace Darwin".
"Four folio holographs by Charles Robert Darwin of The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex; plus accompanying note from Horace Darwin: Note by Horace Darwin regarding the manuscript folios, dated 03 January 1923.
Folio from Chapter 6: ff 2 in the manuscript, with eight lines in the hand of Emma Wedgwood at the bottom of the folio. [Chapter VIII pp. 214-215 of the 1871 edition].
Folio from Chapter I: ff 16 in the manuscript, with Darwin's autograph on the recto. [Chapter I p 45 of the 1871 published edition].
Folio from Chapter 5: ff 1 in the manuscript. [Chapter VI p 185 of the 1871 published edition].
Folio from Chapter 6: ff 1 in the manuscript. [Chapter VII, p 214 of the 1871 published edition].
The folios have been mounted onto foolscap supports" |
