To John Murray 23 [January 1860]1
Down Bromley Kent
23d
My dear Sir
As you consented to M. Belloc’s wish to translate my Book,2 I concluded that I need not trouble you before agreeing (after making careful enquiry with most satisfactory results) to permit “M. Talandier, Professor of French Royal Military College, Sandhurst” to translate my Book.—
Please send him copy of 2d Edit. by post to above address.
I hope I have not acted wrongly in agreeing without consulting you; but I did so merely to save you trouble.— I shall see you, I hope, on Wednesday or Thursday3
My dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin
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.
Summary
Has agreed to permit P. T. A. Talandier to translate the Origin.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2664
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Murray
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.62–63)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2664,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2664.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8
