Ɛpsilon

To G. C. Robertson   22 June [1877]1

Bassett, Southampton

June 22d

My dear Sir

The above address will explain why I have not answered your note sooner.—2 I can have no objection to the flattering wish of the Cologne Gazette, but at the same time I wish that the Editor had first read the article, for though you have pleased me much by admitting it into ‘mind’, I cannot help doubting whether it is worthy of admission.—3

Yours sincerely | Charles Darwin

1
The year is established by the reference to CD’s article in Mind (see n. 3, below).
2
CD stayed at William Erasmus Darwin’s house in Bassett, Southampton, from 13 June to 4 July (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Robertson’s note has not been found.
3
Evidently, Robertson had forwarded a request from Max Schlesinger, the London correspondent for the Kölnische Zeitung, to publish a German translation of CD’s article ‘Biographical sketch of an infant’ (see letter from Max Schlesinger, 4 July 1877). CD’s article had been submitted to Mind in April 1877, but was not yet published (see letter to G. C. Robertson, 27 April 1877).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 Bassett, Southampton] above del ‘Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11011,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11011