From C. E. Brown-Séquard   13 January 1862

25, Cavendish Square. | W.

Jany/13/62.

My dear Sir,

I hope you will excuse the delay of my answer to your very kind letter.1 I intended writing to you some remarks on your views and as the redaction of these remarks would have taken some little time the result has been that not having that time to dispose of I have remained without writing, up to this moment. I am now obliged to put off the writing of anything but an answer to your questions. The publication I will soon make of a review of your admirable work is to appear in my Journal (Journal de la Physiologie de l’Homme & des Animaux) It is the second edition which served me for the Review. As you are about having a translation published in France I think it will be very much better for your interests and those of the translator that I should postpone publishing the Review until the translation has appeared in France.2 I will be obliged to you to have a copy of that translation sent to my publishers in Paris Messrs. V. Masson et fils, Place de l’Ecole de Médecine, as soon as it will have appeared.3

I am happy to say that few men are so near agreeing completely with you as I am, and I feel proud that my own thoughts had brought me long ago to conclusions very much similar to yours.

With much respect and sympathy, | I remain, Dear Sir, Yours faithfully, | C. E. Brown-Séquard

1
Letter to C. E. Brown-Séquard, 2 January [1862].
2
Clémence Auguste Royer’s French translation of the third edition of Origin appeared in the spring of 1862 (Freeman 1977, p. 102; letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862]), but the Journal de la Physiologie de l’Homme et des Animaux, of which Brown-Séquard was editor, did not carry a review of the work.
3
The publishing company V. Masson et fils was owned by Victor Masson (Dictionnaire universel des contemporains).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-3385,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-3385