From Charles Phipps Haussoullier   31 January 1869

52 Grand rue de Batignolles, Paris.

31st. January 1869.

Sir,

I come to beg of you the authorization of translating into french your Naturalist’s Voyage round the World.1

Without overrating my abilities, I am led to believe that my knowledge of the English language, & my general ⁠⟨⁠sc⁠⟩⁠ientific education, will allow me to do justice to your work, the more so that I have alrea⁠⟨⁠dy⁠⟩⁠ made many translations.

Yours most respectfully | Ch. Phipps Haussoullier.

Ch. Darwin Esqre.

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The reference is to Journal of researches, part of which had been translated into French with the title Voyages d’un naturaliste (Montgolfier and Belloc trans. 1860). A translation of the full text was not published until 1875 (Barbier trans. 1875).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-6586,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-6586