| Description | Letters to De Beer from the Oxford University Press, inviting him to edit a volume of Charles Darwin's autobiography alongside Thomas Henry Huxley's autobiography, and his diary "Thoughts and Doings", as part of the series Oxford English Memoirs and Travels. Letters concern research; editorial guidelines; the process of transcribing the original texts; and De Beer's research into Darwin and Huxley. Accompanying the letters are copies of the OUP notes for editors; and photostat excerpts from the Dictionary of National Biography. |