To H. G. Bronn 10 April [1860]1
Down. | Bromley. Kent.
Ap. 10th.
My dear Sir.
I received this morning 4 Copies of the translation2 and I must trouble you with one line to say how much pleased I am with their appearance.
I have read some pages and my sense seems very clearly given; for poor German Scholar as I am, I could read it with some facility—
M Schweizerbart has sent me a copy of your Geschichte;3 but in thanking him I have not thought it necessary to tell him that I already possessed a copy—; but the copy shall not be wasted for I will give it to the Library of the Royal or Linnean or some other Society which I may find does not possess a copy— The work on the development of organisms4 which you so kindly said you would give me was not in the parcel which contained only the translation & the Geschichte—5
Once again permit me to return you my heartfelt thanks for the undertaking of the translation I feel it almost the greatest honour ever paid me; & what is of more consequence your well known name will almost ensure the views contained in my work being fairly considered, & that is all that I can wish for—
With sincere respect & gratitude, | I remain, | My dear Sir, | Yours truly obliged, | Ch Darwin.
Prof. Pictet has published a most candid & fair Review in the Bib. Univers of Geneva—6 I agree to every word which he says, Our only difference is that he attaches less weight to my argument in favour of modification; & I attach less weight to the great difficulties.
The German Circular or Advertisement does me much honour.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
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.
Pictet de la Rive, François Jules. 1860. Sur l’origine de l’espèce par Charles Darwin. Bibliothèque universelle. Revue suisse et étrangère n.s. 7: 233–55.
Summary
Has received copies of translation of Origin. Thanks HGB for undertaking it.
Comments on review by F. J. Pictet ["Sur l’origine de l’espèce, par Charles Darwin: analyse et critique",Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. n.s. 7 (1860): 231–55].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2755
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Heinrich Georg Bronn
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 143
- Physical description
- C 2pp
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2755,” accessed on 3 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2755.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8