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From Charles Phipps Haussoullier   31 January 1869

52 Grand rue de Batignolles, Paris.

31st. January 1869.

Sir,

I come to beg of you the authorization of translating into french your Naturalist’s Voyage round the World.1

Without overrating my abilities, I am led to believe that my knowledge of the English language, & my general ⁠⟨⁠sc⁠⟩⁠ientific education, will allow me to do justice to your work, the more so that I have alrea⁠⟨⁠dy⁠⟩⁠ made many translations.

Yours most respectfully | Ch. Phipps Haussoullier.

Ch. Darwin Esqre.

CD annotations

Top of letter: ‘(Thierry Editor)’ pencil

Footnotes

The reference is to Journal of researches, part of which had been translated into French with the title Voyages d’un naturaliste (Montgolfier and Belloc trans. 1860). A translation of the full text was not published until 1875 (Barbier trans. 1875).

Bibliography

Journal of researches: Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by HMS Beagle, under the command of Captain FitzRoy, RN, from 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Henry Colburn. 1839.

Summary

Requests authorisation to translate Journal of researches into French.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-6586
From
Charles Phipps Haussoullier
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
Paris
Source of text
DAR 171: 362
Physical description
ALS 1p damaged

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6586,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6586.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17

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