To J. V. Carus 5 December 1871
Summary
Sends sheets [of the 6th ed. of Origin].
Thanks JVC for his letter about the sheep.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 5 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 82–83) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8096 |
To J. V. Carus 30 May 1871
Summary
Thanks JVC for corrections for Descent. Index, which is too full, was hurried at the end.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 30 May 1871 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 72–73) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7780 |
To J. V. Carus 25 April [1871]
Summary
Corrections for Descent. Has sold 6500 copies in England.
Has finished rough draft of Expression, but will put it aside for the summer.
Will refresh himself with some curious observations on the response of plants to certain stimuli.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 25 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 62–63) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7715 |
From J. V. Carus 20 November 1871
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Nov 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 117–118 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8077 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From J. V. Carus 20 November 1871 …
- … and n. 3). For CD’s reply, see the letter to J. V. Carus, 17 November 1871 and n. 3. …
- … J. V. Carus, 17 November 1871 . Carus had requested references on the breeding of hybrids from sheep and goats; such hybrids had been mentioned by Carl Vogt (see letter from J. V. Carus, 14 November 1871 …
- … Carus, 22 January 1869 . The second breeder has not been identified. CD had asked Carus about the effects of castration on the growth of horns in merino lambs (see letter to J. V. Carus, 17 November 1871 …
To J. V. Carus 8 October [1871]
Summary
Glad to hear of new German edition of Origin. He is revising the English edition, adding a new chapter of "Answers".
No new edition of Descent has appeared.
Would be glad to see a new translation of the Journal of researches, which he revised in 1845.
Comments on white colour of sea-birds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 8 Oct [1871] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter LC 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 74–77) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7994 |
To J. V. Carus 30 January 1871
Summary
Thanks JVC for his corrections. Will send other errata. Hopes to send remainder of vol. 2 [of Descent] in a fortnight.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 30 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 21–22) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7465 |
From J. V. Carus 2 October 1870
Summary
The outbreak of war and war work have interfered with JVC’s scientific work.
Publisher does not, however, think the war will hurt success of Descent in Germany, and JVC asks for corrected sheets for his use in translating it.
Wishes struggle between Romanic and Teutonic races could be fought out in a form more appropriate to their cultures and civilisation.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Oct 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7332 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Carus refers to the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 to 1871, and the letter to J. V. Carus, …
- … J. V. Carus, 22 April 1871 ), with the second volume appearing later in the year, probably in June 1871 ( ibid. , letter from J. V. Carus, 28 May 1871 ). …
- … Carus was to translate Descent into German; see the letter to J. V. Carus, 18 August 1870 . E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagshandlung, headed by Eduard Koch , published the translation in 1871 ( …
To J. V. Carus 5 October [1870]
Summary
Sympathetic to JVC’s views on Franco-Prussian war [see 7332].
Astonished at JVC’s readiness to begin work. Will send sheets as soon as possible. Has asked Murray to charge for stereotypes of 64 woodblocks at cost. JVC must make his own agreement with publisher.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 5 Oct [1870] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 16–17) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7333 |
From J. V. Carus 17 February 1871
Summary
The pages [of Descent] CD wishes to correct are not yet printed.
JVC’s work on the translation has been interrupted by illness.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7485 |
To J. V. Carus 17 November 1871
Summary
CD offers to mark corrected passages in sheets of 6th edition of Origin.
Discusses question of hybrids between goats and sheep, on which H. von Nathusius has cast doubt in his recent Viehzucht [1872]. CD gives several references for a contrary view.
Asks JVC to inquire about HvN’s assertion that castrated rams have no horns.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 17 Nov 1871 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 80–81) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8073 |
From J. V. Carus 7 October 1871
Summary
Publisher would like to produce a translation of Expression. JVC offers to translate it.
Sends passage from Albertus Magnus on colour of horses.
Offers explanation of white colour of sea-birds.
Schweizerbart is now reprinting Descent, nearly all the first 3000 copies having been sold;
new editions of Origin
and of Variation are also planned.
Possibility of a new German translation of Journal of researches.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 80, DAR 161: 81/2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7991 |
From J. V. Carus 14 November 1871
Summary
News of progress of German editions of Origin
and Descent.
Asks CD for references on chabius – a Chilean hybrid of goat and sheep.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Nov 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 81 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8067 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … From J. V. Carus 14 November 1871 …
- … Carus was preparing a revised German translation of Origin (Bronn and Carus 1872 ), based on the sixth English edition. The publisher was Eduard Koch of E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung . On the second edition or reprint of the German translation of Descent (Carus trans. 1871–2), see the letter to J. V. Carus, 8 October [1871] …
To J. V. Carus 27 January [1872]
Summary
CD sends some sheets [of 6th ed. of Origin]. Informs JVC that he is having it stereotyped, so he can never again make any serious alterations. "The little strength left to me shall be employed on new works."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 27 Jan [1872] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 78–79) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8186 |
From J. V. Carus 14 July 1872
Summary
Asks whether he can start soon on translating Expression.
Thinks CD has gone a little too far on St G. J. Mivart’s objection, which he thinks did very little harm in Germany.
JVC’s history of zoology is finished [Geschichte der Zoologie bis auf Joh. Müller und Charl. Darwin (1872)].
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 July 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8409 |
To J. J. Moulinié 20 February [1871]
Summary
Sends corrections for French edition of Descent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
Date: | 20 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66, f. 18) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7493 |
To Ernst Haeckel 27 December 1871
Summary
Refers to priest who believes in "our ape-like progenitors".
EH’s work on sponges.
Pangenesis.
Describes new edition of Origin [6th]
and his work on plant crossing.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 27 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A Abt. 1–52/26) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8121 |
From C. S. Bate 22 October 1871
Summary
Has read in papers about CD’s forthcoming work [Expression]; sends anecdote about a dog visiting a dentist for relief of a toothache – thus showing "moral courage".
Author: | Charles Spence Bate |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8027 |
To John Murray 21 March 1871
Summary
Is astonished at sale [of Descent]. Will make no additions, but must correct a few misprints and errors [for third issue].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 21 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 f. 252) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7608 |
To Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen 16 February 1871
Summary
"I have made a serious blunder in p. 297, vol 1 of my book [Descent of man]. Kindly inform me by return of post whether this is printed in Dutch; for if not I will send you a correction in M.S. There are also two short omissions to be made in Vol. 2 … "
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen |
Date: | 16 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7484A |
To J. V. Carus 15 February [1871]
Summary
Hopes German edition [of Descent] has not yet been printed because he has fallen into a most serious blunder [about sexual selection never acting on the young] on pp. 297–9 of vol. 1.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 15 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 23–24) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7482 |
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