From Max Schlesinger   4 July 1877

25, Upper Bedford Place. W.C.

4. July 877

Dear Sir,

You had the great kindness of allowing me to translate your latest, most valuable article from the “Mind” in the Cologne Gazette.

As the London representative of that paper I beg to express to you my very best thanks for that kindness and to forward to you the two numbers of the “Gazette”, in which the Article appeared.1

Trusting that the translation will meet with your approval, I have the honour to be, dear Sir | Yours most respectfully | Max Schlesinger

Charles Darwin Esq

1
CD’s article, ‘Biographical sketch of an infant’, was published in the July 1877 issue of Mind. Schlesinger was the London correspondent for the Kölnische Zeitung. The issues sent to CD have not been found in the Darwin Archive–CUL; the translation was published in Kölnische Zeitung, 2 July 1877 (erstes Blatt), [p. 3], and 3 July 1877 (erstes Blatt), [p. 3].

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11034,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11034