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To Gustavus Fritsche   27 October 1875

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Oct 27./75

My dear Sir

As soon as Vol I is complete, I will send it to the address which you name; & then you will be able to judge about the translation.1 The second vol is about as large as the first. There are 43 woodcuts, and Mr Murray will supply stereotypes for £10 on pre-payment.2

I have the pleasure to enclose the photograph of my house3

My neighbour Sir J. Lubbock is the author of Prehistoric Times &c4

Believe me my dear Sir | Yours sincerely | Charles Darwin

LS

1
See letter from Gustavus Fritsche, 23 October 1875. Fritsche hoped to translate Variation 2d ed. into Polish.
2
CD’s publisher, John Murray, generally sold stereotypes of the illustrations to CD’s books to foreign publishers at a small profit over cost. He probably required prepayment after an Italian publisher failed to pay for a set of stereotypes (see letter from R. F. Cooke, 8 October 1875).
3
See letter from Gustavus Fritsche, 23 October 1875. The photograph has not been identified, but there are a number of photographs of Down House taken around this time, for example a photograph taken sometime after 1872 is in DAR 225: 29a.
4
See letter from Gustavus Fritsche, 23 October 1875 and n. 6. John Lubbock lived very near CD at High Elms.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10230,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10230