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To J. V. Carus   16 August [1868]

Summary

Regrets having missed JVC’s visit. CD’s health is poor. He hopes JVC will come to Down after BAAS meeting.

Has heard second part [of Variation] is out in German. Thanks JVC for his great care in making translation accurate.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Julius Victor Carus
Date:  16 Aug [1868]
Classmark:  Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 25–26)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6317

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  • … 1868). The Darwins went to the Isle of Wight on 16 July ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
  • … back in Down on Friday 21 August ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). CD did not meet Carus …

To J. V. Carus   21 June [1869]

Summary

Sends new edition of the Origin. Has made some corrections.

Has been led into dreadful blunder on p. 75 by erroneous calculations of a mathematical friend.

Opposes change of Entstehung into Ursprung [in title] even if more correct. It would make readers think it is a new book.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Julius Victor Carus
Date:  21 June [1869]
Classmark:  Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 19–20)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6790

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  • … at Caerdeon in North Wales from 12 June to 30 July 1869 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …

To J. V. Carus   17 June [1874]

Summary

Asks JVC if he can provide introductions in Leipzig and Dresden for his son George.

Has not yet received any revised sheets of Descent [2d English ed.].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Julius Victor Carus
Date:  17 June [1874]
Classmark:  Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 118–119)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9495

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  • … and returned home on 11 July 1874 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Carus was preparing a …

To J. V. Carus   9 July [1874]

Summary

Advises JVC on how his publisher might deal with problem of getting satisfactory heliotype copies for 2d [German] edition of Expression.

Regrets that he will again be away in August, when JVC might have come for a visit.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Julius Victor Carus
Date:  9 July [1874]
Classmark:  Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 116–117)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9539

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  • … returned from abroad on 11 July 1874 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). CD was away from …

To J. V. Carus   [30 October 1869]

Summary

Has received a letter from Carl Vogt, expressing his readiness to translate Descent at the request of the publisher Franz Anton Ricker

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Julius Victor Carus
Date:  [30 Oct 1869]
Classmark:  Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 45)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6958F

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  • … this original postscript (which is in Emma Darwin’s hand) with the second letter. In the …

To J. V. Carus   19 April [1875]

Summary

Pleased JVC likes Journal of researches. Responds to his queries and thanks him for conscientiousness as a translator.

Insectivorous plants is so large that Murray will publish Climbing plants as a separate little book. Hopes Insectivorous plants is worth translating.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Julius Victor Carus
Date:  19 Apr [1875]
Classmark:  Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 129–130)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9940

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  • … visited Down on 17 April 1875 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). He had been commissioned …

To J. V. Carus   27 October [1872]

Summary

Thanks JVC for his criticisms and corrections of Expression. Asks him to alter his translation accordingly.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Julius Victor Carus
Date:  27 Oct [1872]
Classmark:  Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 96–97)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8580

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  • Emma Litchfield often assisted CD by reading and commenting on his work before publication (see, for example, Correspondence vol.  19, letter to H.  E.  Darwin, …

From J. V. Carus   7 July 1874

Summary

Thanks for proofs [of Descent, 2d English ed.].

Publisher would like better photographs for Expression [2d German ed.].

Author:  Julius Victor Carus
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 July 1874
Classmark:  DAR 161: 96
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9536

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  • … Donders in Utrecht, he had travelled to Hanover; Emma Darwin had just written that his …
  • … health was ‘really better’ ( letter from Emma Darwin to Leonard Darwin, 7 July 1874 ; DAR …
  • … back at Down on 11 July 1874 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Carus was translating the …
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