From J. V. Carus 30 October 1867
39, Elsterstrasse | Leipzig,
Oct. 30. 1867
My dear Sir,
Mr Schweizerbart wishes to advertise your new book and to give a short prospectus of it.1 I promised him to write some few lines, but I cannot do it without knowing the exact title of the work. Judging from the inscription on the first page it will be “On the variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication.” But I prefer to ask you directly for it. Possibly you had already a proof of the title-page.
When will the remainder of Vol. I come? As the winter term begins now I should be very glad to get it soon.2
Pray excuse my hurrying!
Yours very sincerely. | Prof J. Victor Carus
Footnotes
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Asks CD for exact title of Variation for German advertisement.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5658
- From
- Julius Victor Carus
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Leipzig
- Source of text
- DAR 161: 64
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5658,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5658.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 15