To J. V. Carus 17 June [1875]1
[Abinger Hall, Surrey.]
June 17
My dear Sir
I send by this post clean sheets of above half my book on Insectivorous Plants.2 The remaining sheets will be sent in about 2 weeks or sooner. All is finally corrected. The last page, without the Index, is 453. You will be able now to judge whether the book is worth translation, & please let me hear when you have decided.3 The latter half is, I think, more interesting than the first half, as rather more diversified & not so much in detail, so that much less small type. The book has wearied me much, & has cost me much labour.
I hope that you are fairly well,— when you write please tell me how you are.—
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
My address for next 2–3 weeks will be
C. Darwin
at T. H. Farrer Esq.
Abinger Hall
Wotton
Surrey4
Footnotes
Bibliography
Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Summary
Sends clean sheets of Insectivorous plants. JVC will now be able to judge whether it is worth translating. The book has wearied him and cost much labour.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10021
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Julius Victor Carus
- Sent from
- Abinger Hall
- Source of text
- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 143–144)
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10021,” accessed on 1 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10021.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23