To Henry Colburn   4 July [1843]

Dear Sir

I have just received a letter from D^r. Dieffenbach at Berlin, stating that a German Translation of my Journal is on the point of being printed.¹ D^r. D. does not intend to have the map of the south portion of S. America engraved, but he wishes to have the use of the Plate gratis. This I cannot expect you to accede to, but if you would affix some low price to this one Plate & the 3 woodcuts, I would endeavour to persuade him to take them & I w^d be answerable for the payment & would transmit them to Berlin, as I am very anxious to oblige D^r. D in any way I can.— The plates & woodcuts, I presume, are of little value in your consideration.

I hope in this instance you will be so good as to direct one of your clerks to answer this letter immediately, & I should be glad to know how many copies of my Journal remain on hand.—

Believe me | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | C. Darwin H. Colburn E^sq