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To Hermann Kindt   7 September [1864]1

Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.

Sep 7

Dear Sir

I am much obliged for your very kind note.2 I should have been pleased to have given permission for the translation, but my work on Orchids was translated by the late Professor Bronn & published in Stuttgard by E. Schweizerbart.3 My Monograph on the Cirripedia was originally published by the Ray Society, but can now be purchased at Hardwick’s 192 Piccadilly. It consists of 2 large Vols. with numerous plates & I believe but I am not sure that the price is £1–1–4

Pray believe me | Dear Sir yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

LS(A)

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Hermann Kindt, 5 September 1864 (Correspondence vol. 12).
2
Kindt had asked whether it was permitted to publish translated extracts from Orchids (Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Hermann Kindt, 5 September 1864).
3
Heinrich Georg Bronn’s translation of Orchids (Bronn trans. 1862) was published by E. Schweizerbart in Stuttgart.
4
Living Cirripedia (1851), Living Cirripedia (1854). Robert Hardwicke was publisher to the Ray Society. The total cost of the two volumes was £2 2s. (Freeman 1977).

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