WCP1335

[1]

Pierrierie, Near Geneva

Switzerland.

January the 19th 1904

Sir

We have just begun reading your "splendid" book, "Mans place in the universe"¹. This study has given me the wish of translating this work in French. Would you be kind enough to give me the autorisation[sic] required, and to tell [2] me the amount of "author rights" you required for this permission?

I am sure the french public would greet with great interest your enlightened study, and ^{that this translation} would encourage the men of science and faith, who may be found in tolerably good num[3]ber in France, Switzerland and other places. I am not very clever in English, and I propose, if you are kind enough to grant me the favour I ask, that the translation of your fine work will take me a certain amount of time to accomplish. But with the help of God, I hope to execute this [4] fascinating task, and in that hope I pray you, Sir, to accept my anticipated thanks, with my best compliments.

Caroline Barbey-Boissier [signature]

P.S. I am the daughter of Mr Edmond Boissier², author of "Flora orientatis"³whose botanic career is still reputed among the European botanists.