To Milan Radovanović 25 August [1876]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Aug. 25th
Dear Sir
I am much obliged for your courteous letter & kind present of Häckels work.2 Should the state of your country permit the translation of my Origin of Species, I shall be much gratified & should be pleased to possess a copy.3 The state of your Father-land excites the deepest & universal sympathy in this country, & everyone wishes most earnestly to see it freed altogether from the tyranny of the Turks.—4
With much consideration, I remain | Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
His thanks for the present of Haeckel’s work.
He will be much gratified to have MMR translate Origin if the state of his country permits. [See 10580.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10582A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Milan Marinković (Milan) Radovanović
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Russian State Archive of Literature and Arts (RGALI), Moscow (fund 1347, dossier 1, file 109)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10582A,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10582A.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24
