From Charles Phipps Haussoullier 31 January 1869
52 Grand rue de Batignolles, Paris.
31st. January 1869.
Sir,
I come to beg of you the authorization of translating into french your Naturalist’s Voyage round the World.1
Without overrating my abilities, I am led to believe that my knowledge of the English language, & my general ⟨sc⟩ientific education, will allow me to do justice to your work, the more so that I have alrea⟨dy⟩ made many translations.
Yours most respectfully | Ch. Phipps Haussoullier.
Ch. Darwin Esqre.
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
Journal of researches: Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by HMS Beagle, under the command of Captain FitzRoy, RN, from 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Henry Colburn. 1839.
Summary
Requests authorisation to translate Journal of researches into French.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6586
- From
- Charles Phipps Haussoullier
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Paris
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 362
- Physical description
- ALS 1p damaged
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6586,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6586.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17
