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To Anton Stecker   13 March 1878

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

March 13. 1878

Dear Sir,

I have much pleasure in authorizing your publication of a Bohemian edition of my ‘Origin of Species’.1 The Russian translation was published by Kowalewsky of St Petersburg. I believe he has resided in Germany for many years & I have no idea where he is at present.2

I hope you received the former letter written by my son in reply to your question as to the most recent edit of the Origin?3

dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

P.S. | In case the former letter miscarried I may mention that the 6th is the last edit of the Origin; the 2nd is the last of the Descent of Man

To Dr A. Stecker | Jungbunzlau

LS

2
The Russian translation of Origin was in fact made by Sergei Alexandrovich Rachinskiĭ (Rachinskii trans. 1864; see letter from Anton Stecker, 9 March 1878 and n. 2). Vladimir Onofrievich Kovalevsky translated Variation, Descent, and Expression (Kovalevsky trans. 1868–9, [Kovalevsky] trans. 1871–2, and [Kovalevsky] trans. 1872).
3
The letter from Francis Darwin to Anton Stecker has not been found; nor has the letter in which Stecker asked about the most recent edition of Origin.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11419,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11419