From Jean Jacques Moulinié 3 May 1867
Geneva
3 May 1867.
Sir,
I just receive from Professor Vogt communication of your letter to him of 30th April last, in which you grant me in so favourable terms the right of the french translation of your actual publication on “Domesticated animals and cultivated plants”; an honourable favour for which I beg you, Sir, to receive here, the expression of my deep gratitude.1
Like my russian and german co-translators, allow me, sir, not to agree with the opinion you seem to have of your first volume, owing to the nature of its contents;2 I believe on the contrary that the numerous facts, observations and documents you must have abundantly and laboriously collected, and of which I suppose the first volume contains the exposal, besides their importance as the ground-work of the whole edifice, the basis of the theoretical views and conclusions of the second part, will by themselves and in their particulars, have a high interest for the reader, so gradually brought down from positive facts to the natural consequences they lead to.
I shall therefore be very happy to receive the first sheets of your publication as soon as you will judge convenient to send them, they will be welcome.
I remain Sir, yours very truly | and respectfully | J. J. Moulinié
15. rue du Mont Blanc | Geneva.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Through Carl Vogt, he has received the right to translate Variation into French [(1868), preface by Carl Vogt].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5525
- From
- Jean Jacques Moulinié
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Geneva
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 266
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5525,” accessed on 21 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5525.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 15