From J. V. Carus 19 January 1874
Leipzig,
Jan 19, 1874
My dear Sir,
The publisher wants me to prepare the new edition of the Descent of Man as soon as possible.1 May I ask you, if I may be able to have proofs of your new edition or if it will be better to wait, till you are ready? There is one difficulty for me personally. You know I am going again to Edinburgh for the summer session, and shall leave Leipzig about the middle of April.2 If I cannot revise the translation with your corrections before I go there is very little chance for my doing it in Edinburgh, as my time is taken up there with pretty hard work almost entirely. I should therefore be very much obliged to you if you would kindly let me know, when I may be able to begin.
My health is pretty good; for, although I did not succeed to become quite free of cold, (bronchia and stomach,) yet I came through the first part of the winter better than I had been afraid. Edinburgh has done me an immense deal of good. The middle lobe of my right lung was obliterated, it became free and permeable for air again in Edinburgh So I hope that the second summer will turn out to be as beneficient as the first.
I am now very hard at work to finish my Handbook of Zoology,3 which will be done in a few weeks.
I am | Ever yours truly | J. Victor Carus
Footnotes
Bibliography
Carus, Julius Victor and Gerstaecker, Carl Eduard Adolph. 1863–75. Handbuch der Zoologie. 2 vols. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann.
Carus, Julius Victor, trans. 1871–2. Die Abstammung des Menschen und die geschlechtliche Zuchtwahl. By Charles Darwin. (German translation of Descent.) 2d edition. 2 vols. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagshandlung (E. Koch).
Carus, Julius Victor, trans. 1871. Die Abstammung des Menschen und die geschlechtliche Zuchtwahl. By Charles Darwin. (German translation of Descent.) 2 vols. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagshandlung.
Carus, Julius Victor, trans. 1875a. Die Abstammung des Menschen und die geschlechtliche Zuchtwahl. By Charles Darwin. (German translation of Descent.) 3d edition. 2 vols. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagshandlung (E. Koch).
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
A new German edition of Descent is planned. Would like to work on proofs before leaving for lectures at Edinburgh.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9248
- From
- Julius Victor Carus
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Leipzig
- Source of text
- DAR 161: 92
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9248,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9248.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22