To C. F. Bergstedt? 6 July [1871]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
July 6th
Dear Sir
I am greatly indebted to you for the honour which you have done me in reviewing my works, & for your kindness in having sent a copy of the several articles to me.—2 One of my sons knows some Sweedish, so I shall be able to learn something about them.3
I did not know before looking at the heads of your articles that my Origin of Species had been translated into Sweedish.—4
With my best thanks & respect I remain | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Ch Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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.
Selling, A. M. trans. 1871. Om arternas uppkomst genom naturligt urval eller de bäst utrustade rasernas bestand [IMPORTANT NOTE: SWEDISH ACCENT TO HAND-SET: CIRCLE OVER A IN BESTAND ]i kampen för tillvaron. [Swedish translation of Origin.\] Stockholm: L. J. Hierta.
Summary
Thanks author of an anonymous Swedish review of CD’s works [in Samtiden, Vecksckrift för politik och litteratur, ed. C. F. Bergstedt, nos. 23–5 (1871): 358–64, 374–81, 390–7]. CD is surprised to learn the Origin has appeared in Swedish [1869].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7852
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Carl Fredrik Bergstedt
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Kungliga biblioteket, National Library of Sweden
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7852,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7852.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19