To J. V. Carus 17 June [1875]
Summary
Sends clean sheets of Insectivorous plants. JVC will now be able to judge whether it is worth translating. The book has wearied him and cost much labour.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 17 June [1875] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 143–144) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10021 |
To J. V. Carus 1 July [1875]
Summary
Insectivorous plants to be published in two or three days.
Climbing plants and 2d ed. of Variation will be published early in November.
Has no strength for corrections for the new printing of Origin, though many are desired.
Pleased that JVC will translate Insectivorous plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 1 July [1875] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 145–146) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10038 |
To J. V. Carus 19 August 1875
Summary
Sends errata in Insectivorous plants.
Is correcting proofs of [2d ed. of] Climbing plants, to be published in November. It is, he thinks, worth translating.
A second, much corrected, edition of Variation also will be published.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 19 Aug 1875 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 133–134) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10126 |
To J. V. Carus 14 October [1875]
Summary
Sends sheets of Climbing plants [2d ed.], which will be published in November. Suggests JVC have someone translate it under his supervision,
since he has not yet finished Insectivorous plants.
Admires the appearance of [German ed. of] Journal of researches.
Discusses other publication prospects.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 14 Oct [1875] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 135–136) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10198 |
To J. V. Carus 22 November [1875]
Summary
Thanks JVC for corrections in Insectivorous plants. Explains confusion of fluid and dry measures. The work has sold well in England.
Repeats suggestion that JVC employ someone to translate Climbing plants under his supervision.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 22 Nov [1875] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 127–128) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10269 |
To J. V. Carus 21 December [1875]
Summary
Encloses a correction [for Climbing plants, 2d ed.]. Asa Gray made a mistake in name of species of Passiflora.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 21 Dec [1875] |
Classmark: | Kotte Autographs (dealers) (2012) (letter); Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 70) (copy of letter and original of enclosure) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10313 |
To J. V. Carus 25 December 1875
Summary
Thanks for errata in Insectivorous plants.
Sends spare copies of his papers, but thinks several are not worth publishing.
Has only one copy, which he will lend JVC, of the best one, on "Erratic boulders of South America" [Collected papers 1: 145–63].
Has not sent "Parallel roads of Glen Roy" [Collected papers 1: 87–137], as he is sure he was wrong.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 25 Dec 1875 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 137–138) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10323 |
To J. V. Carus 21 March 1876
Summary
Glad to hear that [German edition of] Insectivorous plants is published.
Thanks for errata in Climbing plants [2d ed.].
Sends list [missing] of his papers, with those certainly not worth translating marked with a red line.
Reports on work in progress.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 21 Mar 1876 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 139–140) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10422 |
To J. V. Carus 23 March 1876
Summary
Clarifies a passage [in Coral reefs, 2d ed. (1874)], which JVC had questioned.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 23 Mar 1876 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 141–142) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10426 |
To J. V. Carus 24 April 1876
Summary
Answers queries concerning errata in Coral reefs.
All copies of Volcanic islands are sold. Smith, Elder & Co. want to bring out a new edition, but CD is resolved not to look at a single proof.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 24 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 152–153) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10468 |
To J. V. Carus 27 September 1876
Summary
Sends first sheets of Cross and self fertilisation. The book is a very dull record of experiments, but nevertheless CD believes it is valuable for its remarkable and well-established results.
Orchids [2d ed.] will soon go to the printer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 27 Sept 1876 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 147–148) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10619 |
To J. V. Carus [early October 1876]
Summary
Tells JVC that to the title on the first page [of Cross and self-fertilisation] is to be added "in the vegetable kingdom".
Guesses that Orchids [2d ed.] will be 20 or 30 pages longer than the old edition.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | [early Oct 1876] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 66–67) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10627 |
To J. V. Carus 18 October [1876]
Summary
Proof sheets [of Cross and self-fertilisation] have been lost.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 18 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 68–69) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10645 |
To J. V. Carus 25 October 1876
Summary
Sends sheets [of Cross and self-fertilisation].
Heliotypes for Expression delayed because new negatives must be made.
Thanks Herr Koch [of Schweizerbart] for copies of Coral reefs and Climbing plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 25 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 149) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10654 |
To J. V. Carus 23 November 1876
Summary
Tells JVC what changes have been made in the new edition of his geological book [Volcanic islands and South America].
Does not know why he doubted about the Atlantic dust paper – now thinks it worth translating.
Glad JVC has not found Cross and self-fertilisation as intolerably dull as CD feared. Answers his queries about Cross and self-fertilisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 23 Nov 1876 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 150–151) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10686 |
To J. V. Carus 20 December 1876
Summary
Sends an omitted reference to an article by Dr Ascherson [Bot. Ztg. (1871): 444 et seq.] for Cross and self-fertilisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 20 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 154–155) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10730 |
To J. V. Carus 17 January 1877
Summary
JVC’s publisher [Schweizerbart] must decide soon how many copies of two maps in Volcanic islands and South America are needed.
Has sent new edition of Orchids – greatly altered, but he hopes improved.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 17 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 156–157) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10799 |
To J. V. Carus 22 January 1877
Summary
Thanks JVC for errata [in Cross and self-fertilisation]
and especially for interesting and amusing notes on expression. Will use them if a new edition [of Expression] is needed, but Murray has printed too many copies of first edition.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 22 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 158–159) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10809 |
To J. V. Carus 19 February 1877
Summary
Corrects an important misprint in English edition of Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 275, line six from top [but see 10877].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 19 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 160–161) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10852 |
To J. V. Carus 4 March 1877
Summary
Apologises for sending wrong Cross and self-fertilisation erratum. The error is on p. 191 (where "cross-seeds" appears, it should read "self-fertilised"). There is no error on p. 275.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 4 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 162–163) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10877 |
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