My dear Sir

I thank you very much for y^r letter & for your proposal about the translation, which I look at as a very great honour;¹ & I feel certain that it w^d 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 y^r 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