To John Murray   23 [January 1860]1

Down Bromley Kent

23d

My dear Sir

As you consented to M. Belloc’s wish to translate my Book,2 I concluded that I need not trouble you before agreeing (after making careful enquiry with most satisfactory results) to permit “M. Talandier, Professor of French    Royal Military College, Sandhurst” to translate my Book.—

Please send him copy of 2d Edit. by post to above address.

I hope I have not acted wrongly in agreeing without consulting you; but I did so merely to save you trouble.—   I shall see you, I hope, on Wednesday or Thursday3

My dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin

1
Dated by the reference to CD’s trip to London (see n. 3, below).
2
See Correspondence vol. 7, letter to John Murray, 14 November [1859]. Louise Swanton Belloc had found Origin too scientific to translate easily (see letter to Charles Lyell, 14 January [1860]).
3
CD went to London on 24 January 1860 and returned to Down on 27 January (Emma Darwin’s diary). See also following letter.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

3.2 Wednesday] after del ‘Tues’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-2664,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-2664