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From Marinko Radovanović    30 August 1878

Belgrad,

Augst. 30, 1878.

Dear Sir,

You were so extremely kind as to authorize my son Milan M. Radovanovitch to translate your “Origin of the Species”, and now it becomes my painful duty to apprise you the heavy blow I have experienced by his death.1 He expired on 2 june last, in his 29th. year.

What a subject for tears, and what a loss my heart mourns over, good God!

The last moments of my son were consecrated to the correction of the last proofs of the Serbian edition of your work. As you have been pleased to take interest into his translation, I take the liberty of sending you a copie of it.

Please to accept the hommage of the profound respect with which I have the honour to be, Sir, | Yours most respectfully, | Marinko Radovanovitch

1
CD’s copy of the Serbian translation of Origin 6th ed. (Radovanović trans. 1878) is in the Darwin Library–Down. CD had authorised the translation in 1876 (see Correspondence vol. 24, letter to Milan Radovanović, 25 August [1876]).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11681,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11681