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To ?   28 December [1870]1

Down. | Beckenham | Kent. S.E.

Dec. 28

Dear Sir

I am much obliged for your note.2 It would have given me great pleasure to have had you as the Translator into Dutch of my new book. But Dr Hartogh van Zouteveen applied some time ago & has already completed a large part of vol. I, to be published by Mr. Ijkema of Delft.—3 So it is impossible for me to make any change.—

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen, 27 November 1870 (Correspondence vol. 18).
2
No correspondence about another Dutch translation of Descent has been found in the Darwin Archive–CUL.
3
See Correspondence vol. 18, letter from Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen, 27 November 1870. Johan IJkema published the Dutch translation of Descent (Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen trans. 1871–2).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 Beckenham] before del ‘Bromley.’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7402F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7402F