Dear Sir

I fear that you never republish articles which have appeared in foreign journals, But one on Language has just been published in the N. American Rev. for July, by a distinguished philologist Prof. Whitney, who has sent it to me.¹ In this he answers in a very able manner, as it appears to me, Max Müller’s views which were published by you,²

As a writer in the July number of our Quarterly has abused me in strong words, “amazing ignorance” &c for what little I have said on the development of language,³ I much desire to see Whitney’s article republished in England.

I hope that you will not think it impertinent on my part to offer gladly to pay the expenses of printing, if this w^d make any difference in the publisher’s inclination to let it appear in so excellent a journal as the Contemporary.

I would send the article for your judgment, but if you have a fixed rule against republication this w^d only cause you additional trouble.

One word in answer wd suffice—

If you consent to republish I w^d at once write to Prof. Whitney, & take the responsibility of the affair on my own shoulders—

Dear Sir | yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin