To Carl Vogt 30 October 1869
Down. | Beckenham | Kent. S.E.
Oct 30 1869
My dear Sir
I thank you very much for yr letter & for your proposal about the translation, which I look at as a very great honour;1 & I feel certain that it wd have made my book much more widely known— But I have already partly agreed with Carus, & now that I hear for the first time about the loss of the professorship I will write at once & tell him what you have said, & will propose to him to make the best bargain he can with any publisher in Germany whom he may prefer. I am much obliged to you for giving me this information with so much kind sympathy for Carus.
As Leukart is so distinguished a man, I hope that Carus holding my views may be only a very secondary cause of the loss of the professorship.2
With my cordial thanks for yr proposal about the translation, so honourable to me, & with the hope that I may some time have the real pleasure of making your personal acquaintance I remain my dear Sir | yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin
P.S. I may add that my book will not be ready for a considerable time, but my publisher insisted on a notice.3
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks for proposal about translation [of Descent]. Will write to J. V. Carus to make agreement with publisher.
Hopes JVC’s holding CD’s views only secondary cause of loss of professorship.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6959
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Carl Vogt
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. fr. 2188, ff. 298–9)
- Physical description
- LS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6959,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6959.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17