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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

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Milan Radovanović, 18 August 1876.
2
See letter from Milan Radovanović, 18 August 1876 and n. 5. Radovanović had sent CD Aleksa Radovanović’s Serbian translation of Ernst Haeckel’s Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte (Natural history of creation; Haeckel 1875b).
3
The Serbian translation of Origin was published in 1878 (Radovanović trans. 1878); CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–Down.
4
Radovanović was serving as a doctor in the Serbian–Ottoman war (see letter from Milan Radovanović, 18 August 1876 and n. 2).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 Kent.] before del ‘Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10582A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10582A