WCP2387

Letter (WCP2387.2277)

[1]1,2

22, Avenue Trudaine

Paris,

Jan[uar]y. 28th / [18]79

Sir

Though I have not the honour of being personally known by you I presume[?] writing for asking you the authorization to translate into French your excellent work "Tropical Nature."3 I may add, as to my qualification that I have translated lately most of M. Darwin's4 works; Sir John Lubbock's5 "Prehistoric Times"6 and "Origin of Civilisation"7; M. Tylor's8 "Primitive Culture"9; M. J. Evans'10, "Stone Ages"11.

I hope, should you grant me your authorization, the work would be published in the [1 word illeg] of the present year.

An early reply will oblige

Yours truly | E Barbier12 [signature]

1
Text in another hand in the top right corner reads "4".
2
Text in another hand across the top right corner reads " Ans[were]d.
3
Wallace, A. R. (1878). Tropical Nature, and Other Essays, Macmillan & Co., London & New York. i-(xvi), 1-356.
4
For Darwin's works in translation see <darwin-online.org.uk>.
5
Lubbock, Sir John (1834-1913). Banker, politician and scientific writer. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
6
Lubbock, Sir John. (1867). L'homme avant l'histoire : étudié d'après les monuments et les costumes retrouvés dans les differénts pays de l'Europe suivi d'une description comparée des moeurs des sauvages modernes. Traduit de l'anglais par Ed. Barbier. Librairie Germer-Baillière, Paris. 512 pp.
7
Lubbock, Sir John. (1873). Les origines de la civilisation, état primitif de l'homme, et moeurs des sauvages modernes de l'anglais. Traduit par Ed. Barbier. Librairie Germer-Baillière, Paris. 657 pp.
8
Tylor, Sir Edward Burnett (1832-1917), anthropologist. ODNB.
9
Tylor, Edward B. (1876-78). La civiisation primitive. Traduit de l'anglais par Ed. Barbier. C. Reinwald et ce., Paris.
10
Evans, Sir John (1823-1908), archaeologist, numismatist, and paper manufacturer.
11
Evans, Sir John. (1878). Les Ages de la Pierre. Instruments, Armes et Ornements de la Grande-Bretagne. Traduit de l'anglais par Ed. Barbier. Librarie Germer-Baillière, Paris. 694 pp.
12
Barbier, Edmond (1834?-1880). French author and translator; Translated the 6th English edition of On the Origin of Species into French. Wallace Letters Online, NHM.

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Transcribed by Ghosh, Susan [2018-08-15]

Please cite as “WCP2387,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2387