To Cassell, Petter & Galpin [August–December 1868]1
Gentlemen,
In your letter of ..... you were so kind as to say that you wd supply me, as by enclosed list, with 15 stereotype blocks from Brehms work, at 9d per square inch(?) but that you had not as yet received the originals.2 If they are now in your possession I shd be much obliged if you wd have them made for me, & I trust that you will see that they are good copies & let me have a proof of each.— Immediately that they are finished, I will myself pay for them, but they shd be sent to the care of Mr Murray 50 Albemarle St. marking outside that they are blocks from me.—3
In your former letter you enquired about Mr Kovalevsky & in answer I informed you that he had written he shd be in England in July & wd communicate with me, but I have not heard anything of him, not even whether he has published the translation of my last work.—4
With many thanks, I remain | Gentlemen | very faithfully | C. Darwin
P.S. As my next work, (which however will not be published I suppose for a year)5 will almost certainly appear in several translations, & as I have always hitherto supplied stereotypes of all the woodcuts6 I [presume you] could not object to you doing for same costs the above 15, which fees only to permit of their use by [whoever translated]
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
Orchids: On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
CD arranges for copies of some blocks [for use in Descent] from Brehm’s [Illustrirtes Thierleben (1864–7)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6300
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 96: 52
- Physical description
- ADraft 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6300,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6300.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16