From R. F. Charles 9 June 1880
City of London School | Milk St. | Cheapside | E.C.
June 9th. 1880
Dear Sir,
I venture to ask your permission to use some extracts from the book “a Naturalist’s Voyage round the World” in a series of English reading-books for schools that I am now bringing out. I ought to say that my publishers some time since asked Mr. Murray for permission to print these extracts and others by other writers and he refused to allow extracts from any book published by him.1
As I have no reason to suppose that he referred the matter to you I venture to ask if you will help me. The books are merely school “Readers” and are to be called “The Model Reading-books.”— (Publishers—Messrs. Relfe & Co)2
The extracts I have marked are
1. pp. 450–51. “a Corrobery or native dance”.—
2. p.p. 204–209. “Tierra del Fuego”.—
3. p.p. 151–154. “Horsemanship of the Gauchos.”—3
Should you be able to grant my request I shall feel very much obliged, and of course will take care to see that the extracts are properly printed and acknowleged.4
Trusting that you will excuse the liberty I am taking
Believe me | Yours faithfully | R. F. Charles.
Charles Darwin Esq.
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
Charles, Robert Fletcher, ed. [1880–3.] Relfe Brothers’ model reading-books: narrative and descriptive, in prose and verse, for use in schools. With notes and introduction by R.F. Charles. 4 vols. London: Relfe Brothers.
Journal of researches (1860): Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of HMS Beagle around the world, under the command of Capt. FitzRoy RN. By Charles Darwin. Reprint edition. London: John Murray. 1860.
Summary
Requests permission to quote Journal of researches passages in a school text-book [Relfe Brothers model reading-books … in prose and verse (1880–3)]. John Murray has previously refused.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12627
- From
- Robert Fletcher Charles
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- City of London School
- Source of text
- DAR 161: 133
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12627,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12627.xml