Dear Sir

We are very sorry to tell you that the state of mental health of our friend M Moulinié is in no means satisfactory, and that we were to look after another translator for your new work “on the Emotions”¹ We propose now, Monsieur le docteur Pozzi, aide anatomiste et physiologiste à l’Ecole de Médecine, recommended by our friends MM Charles Martins of Montpellier and Professor Broca at Paris.² M. Pozzi is ready to translate your work, and we are sure that he will give satisfaction in his work both to the author and the editor.

We should therefore be much obliged by giving your agreement to our choice, or in proposing yourself any person of your acquaintance with whom we could make an agreement—

You know that since twelve months M. Moulinié delayed the publication of the 2^d Volume of the Descent of Man, and the Origin of Species. By our best exertions these two volumes are now nearly ready and we hope to send you the 2^d Volume of the Descent before the end of this month. The Origin requires yet a month more, and will not be ready before the end of November next.³

The first volume of Descent has been sold till now at nearly 1200 copies, we hope that at the issue of the second volume the sale will still be more considerable.

Waiting for your kind reply, we remain | Dear Sir, | Your’s most obediently | C Reinwald & Co

To Charles Darwin, Esquire— Down