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To Enrique Godínez   21 March 1877

Down | Beckenham, kent.

Mars 21th 1877

Dear Sir:

I received only this morning the sheets of the spanish translation of my Origin of Species, and like much the appearance of the type etc., and am glad to see what progress has been made.1 With reference to your obliging note of the 14th2 I am extremely sony to say that on account of my weak health and being much overworked I cannot undestake to read over the sheets. The labour would be considerable, as from waut of practice I have forgolten much of waht I formedy knew of your fine language.3 The few pages which I have read seem to me very cleacy expressed whith cordial wishes for the success of the work I remain, dear Sir, yours faithfully.

Ch. Darwen.4

1
Godínez was translating Origin 6th ed. into Spanish; see Correspondence vol. 24, letter to Enrique Godínez, 28 April 1876.
2
The letter from Godínez has not been found.
3
CD studied Spanish in 1831 (see Correspondence vol. 7, Supplement, letter to C. T. Whitley, [12 July 1831]: should now be dated [19 July 1831]) and he became familiar with the language on the Beagle voyage (1831–6).
4
The spelling errors appear in the printed version of the letter; the original has not been found.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10908,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10908