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To G. C. Robertson   24 June [1877]1

Bassett | Southampton.

June 24th.

My dear Sir,

I beg pardon for troubling you but M. Aglave (Editeur Revue Scientifique) to whom I lie under obligation, wants to bring out a French Translation of my little paper in Mind.2

Will you kindly give me permission, & in this case will you further be so good as to direct the printers to send to me to present address3 the old proof, or a new proof of my paper. I would not ask or take so much trouble did I not feel under obligations to M. Aglave who supplicates for an immediate proof.

Forgive me for causing so much trouble about so very small an affair.

Yours sincerely. | In haste. | Ch. Darwin.

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1
The year is established by the reference to CD’s article in Mind (see n. 2, below).
2
The request to publish a French translation of CD’s article ‘Biographical sketch of an infant’ was in a missing portion of the letter from Emile Alglave, 21 June 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). The translation appeared in Revue scientifique de la France et de l’étranger, 14 July 1877, pp. 25–8.
3
CD stayed at William Erasmus Darwin’s house in Bassett, Southampton, from 13 June to 4 July (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11013,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11013