From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Jan [1875-81]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017)
Summary:
Turns down an offer to undertake a German translation of one of his works.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Turns down an offer to undertake a German translation of one of his works.
Reports that Variation is out of print. Suggests means of obtaining a copy.
Comments on death of W. W. Reade. "… it is best that he should have been relieved from all future suffering, as he was evidently a doomed man".
Is very grateful for the gift of a fender-stool. Will send her a copy of Insectivorous plants.
Thanks WCW for sending his lecture ‘The dawn of animal life’, which seems "a wonderfully clear & interesting sketch of the lower organisms".
Has told publisher to send a copy of Insectivorous plants.