To Henry Colburn 4 July [1843]
Down near Bromley | Kent
July 4th.
Dear Sir
I have just received a letter from Dr. Dieffenbach at Berlin, stating that a German Translation of my Journal is on the point of being printed.1 Dr. D. does not intend to have the map of the south portion of S. America engraved, but he wishes to have the use of the Plate gratis. This I cannot expect you to accede to, but if you would affix some low price to this one Plate & the 3 woodcuts, I would endeavour to persuade him to take them & I wd be answerable for the payment & would transmit them to Berlin, as I am very anxious to oblige Dr. D in any way I can.— The plates & woodcuts, I presume, are of little value in your consideration.
I hope in this instance you will be so good as to direct one of your clerks to answer this letter immediately, & I should be glad to know how many copies of my Journal remain on hand.—
Believe me | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | C. Darwin H. Colburn Esq
Footnotes
Bibliography
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. 2d edition. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
Summary
Offers to pay for use of plate of map of S. America and for three woodcuts, for German edition of Journal of researches [1844].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-680
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Henry Colburn
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 680,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-680.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 2
