From Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen   27 November 1870

Sir!

M^r Kramers of Rotterdam told me the contents of your kind letter to him of the 19^th inst.¹

Hearing you would be glad to know, who he would employ for the translation of your new work: the descent of man and selection in relation to sex,² I take the liberty to introduce myself— I am naturalist, had my education at the university of Leiden of Prof. I. van der Hoeven and was promoved there in 1866 to Mathereas magister et philosophiae naturalis Doctor³

M^r Kramers wrote to Mr Murray in the name of M^r Ykema, bookseller and editor in this town.⁴

M^r Ykema and I, we are happy with your approbation to see your work translated in the Dutch language and were glad to receive the clean sheets of the greatest part of Vol. I.

To obtain now the right of translation we want to show and to depose the title of your book, please send me or M^r Ykema such as soon as possible with which you wil oblige very much

Sir | Yours faithfully | D^r H. Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen