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To Milan Radovanović   [before 12 February 1878]1

Dear Sir

I am much obliged for your note & kind congrat. on my coming B. D.2 I thank you for your photo.3 & as you wd perhaps like to possess mine, I send it.—

With respect to the Preface to your S. Edit. I really have nothing special to say, excepting that I sincerely hope it may be in every way successful.—4 In this case I shall have the great satisfaction of thinking that I may aid in turning the attention of some few young men towards the natural sciences, in a country, which many persons in England believe will soon take an eminent place amongst the nations of E.5

Pray believe me | — —

Radowanowicz

ADraft

1
The date is established by the references to CD’s birthday and to the Serbian translation of Origin (see nn. 2 and 4, below).
2
The note from Radovanović has not been found. CD’s birthday was on 12 February.
3
The photograph of Radovanović has not been found in the Darwin Archive–CUL.
4
CD had given Radovanović permission to translate Origin into Serbian (see Correspondence vol. 24, letter to Milan Radovanović, 25 August [1876]). The translation was published by the end of August 1878 (Radovanović trans. 1878; see letter from Marinko Radovanović, 30 August 1878); CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–Down.
5
‘E’: Europe. Serbia had proclaimed independence and declared war on the Ottoman Empire in June 1876. After the war ended, boundaries were renegotiated with the signing of the Treaty of Berlin on 13 July 1878 (see J. K. Cox 2002, pp. 53–4). See also Correspondence vol. 24, letter from Milan Radovanović, 18 August 1876.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.1 note] after del ‘ki’
2.1 your] over ‘t’
2.2 it] above del ‘that you In’
2.3 thinking] above del ‘hoping’
2.3 may] added in margin after del ‘shall’ above del ‘may’
2.4 young] after del ‘*of your [below del ‘of your’]’
2.4 towards the] above del ‘the’
2.4 in England 2.5] interl above interl & del ‘here’
2.5 soon] interl

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10827,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10827