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To Raphael Meldola   25 November 1880

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)

Nov. 25/80

My dear Sir

I can well believe that your labour must have been great. & everyone is bound to aid you in any way.

No I of F. Muller’s paper is in the August no for 1877

No II— is in the October number 1877.

Both these articles, I remember thinking excellent.1

I am not one of the Editors of Kosmos, only a kind of patron(!) & therefore cannot give permission; but when you write to Editors you can say that I have expressed a hope that permission would be granted; you acknowledging source of papers.2

Heartily wishing you success & in haste to catch first Post, I remain | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
In his letter of 24 November 1880, Meldola had asked CD in which issues of Kosmos parts one and two of Fritz Müller’s paper on observations on Brazilian butterflies (F. Müller 1877) appeared.
2
Meldola thought that CD was one of the editors of Kosmos and asked for his permission to translate F. Müller 1877, but CD had backed the journal only by allowing his name to appear in the full title, Kosmos: Zeitschrift für einheitliche Weltanschauung auf Grund der Entwickelungslehre in Verbindung mit Charles Darwin und Ernst Haeckel (Kosmos: journal for uniform worldview based on the theory of development in connection with Charles Darwin and Ernst Haeckel); see Correspondence vol. 25, letter from Ernst Krause, 11 March 1877.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12854,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12854