From N. Sobko 3 September 1872
Zagorodnoy, 58, St. Petersburg.
22 August/3 September 1872.1
Sir,
Having recently learned that You have brought to a conclusion Your new work: Expressions of Animals, and being convinced that the russian public will impatiently expect the appearance of this book in russian language as it always used to expect the appearance of all Your productions, I take upon myself the liberty of disturbing You with my request: have the kindness of communicating to me whether I am to hope to receive from You by degrees the proof-sheets, so that I might translate into the russian language Your new work after those proof-sheets and publish my translation at the same time with the English original.2
I have, Sir, the honour to be respectfully | Your most obedient servant | N. Sobko.
CD note:
Footnotes
Bibliography
Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
[Kovalevsky, Vladimir Onufrievich], trans. 1872. O vyrazhenii oshchushchenii u cheloveka i zhivotnykh. By Charles Darwin. Translated from the author’s proofs under the editorial direction of Prof. A. Kovalevsky. (Russian translation of Expression.) St Petersburg: Tipografia F. S. Sushchinskogo.
Summary
Asks whether he may have the sheets of Expression to produce a Russian edition.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8509
- From
- N. Sobko
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- St Petersburg
- Source of text
- DAR 177: 215
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8509,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8509.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20