From Williams & Norgate 29 March 1860
14, Henrietta-Street, Covent-Garden. | London, W.C.
March 29 18 60
Dear Sir
The translation of origin of species from Stuttgart have not yet arrived.—1 The Academy has not published a new edition of their dictionary,2 we believe Poitevin’s new french dictionary 2 vols 4o. (60/ morocco)3 is superior to the Academy’s English french the best dict. is Flemmings (2 vols 4o. 50/)4 we shall take care to address your parcels and letters according to directions receivd.5
Yours very oblig | fpa Williams & Norgate | Ernest Greenoak6
Charles Darwin Esquire
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
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.
Poitevin, Prosper. 1856–60. Nouveau dictionnaire universal de la langue française. 2 vols. Paris.
Summary
W&N have not yet received the German edition of the Origin.
Recommend French–English and French dictionaries.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2735
- From
- Williams & Norgate
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Henrietta St, 14
- Source of text
- DAR 91: 82
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2735,” accessed on 19 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2735.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8