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Edmond Barbier is dead and his widow needs support.

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Has sent remaining sheets for proposed French translation of Erasmus Darwin. Edmond Barbier should consider the pages from Seward’s Life that have been cut from the English edition.

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Discusses arrangements for a French translation of Erasmus Darwin (1879).

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Annual report on sale of Reinwald editions of CD’s works.

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Second edition of Edmond Barbier’s revised translation of Origin selling out; third one to be published.

A new edition of Variation, virtually retranslated by Barbier, is in press.

Second edition of Descent selling out.

CD’s botanical books are losing money.

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Until C-FR sees the whole of Erasmus Darwin, he cannot decide if it is worth translating into French.

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Encloses list of errata in Insectivorous plants [1875] for the French translator.

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Reports on French translations of Cross and self-fertilisation, Climbing plants, and Insectivorous plants.

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Édouard Heckel of Grenoble is translating Cross and self-fertilisation.

Expression has sold out; wants a new edition.

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French translation of Insectivorous plants published.

Climbing plants has not sold well.

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Pleased CD is satisfied with translation of Cross and self-fertilisation.

Sends £20 royalties for Insectivorous plants (700 sold).

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Forms of flowers, translated by Édouard Heckel, is published.

Cross and self-fertilisation has only sold 450–500 copies.

Origin sells regularly; he looks forward to a cheaper edition.