To Armand de Quatrefages 15 January [1860]1
Down Bromley Kent
Jan. 15th
Dear Sir
I beg pardon for troubling you. I wrote some time since asking you to interest yourself in getting a French Translation of my Book, & I begged you not to write without you had anything favourable to communicate.2 This morning I have received a letter from a French gentleman (M. Talandier) who is anxious to translate it, but he is not a naturalist. I have in answer told him that I could not agree till I heard from Paris.3 Perhaps you will kindly write me one line at once, if you have anything to communicate; but if I do not hear in a few days, I will assume what is in itself very probable, that you know not any Naturalist who would undertake the task. From a letter from M. Isidore Geoffroy St. Hilaire, I have put myself into communication with Madame Belloc again; but I do not believe she has any intention of translating it.—4
With most sincere apologies for the great liberty which I have taken in troubling you, I remain with much respect.— | Yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Summary
Asks if Quatrefages has found anyone to translate Origin into French, because P. T. A. Talandier, although not a naturalist, wishes to do so.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2652F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Archives de l’Académie des sciences, Paris (75 J 837 Fonds Alfred Lacroix)
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2652F,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2652F.xml
