To J. V. Carus 17 February [1867]
Summary
CD thinks JVC’s preface is fair to Bronn. Regrets JVC has not added notes of his own, but, having dropped Bronn’s appendix, it is perhaps best to leave the text without comment. Rejoices that the German public can now judge the Origin fairly.
Has written to W. B. Carpenter for a specimen of Eozoon to send to JVC.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 17 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 6–7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5403 |
To J. V. Carus 11 April [1867]
Summary
CD is delighted that JVC will undertake translation of Variation.
Agrees with JVC’s opinion of Haeckel’s book [Generelle Morphologie (1866)]. CD believes it is bad policy for Haeckel to speak so positively about a disputed theory [i.e., CD’s] and particularly regrets the severity of EH’s criticisms of other authors.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 11 Apr [1867] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 8–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5498 |
To J. V. Carus 18 April [1867]
Summary
Reassures JVC [who had received the impression that CD would prefer Carl Vogt as translator of Variation].
CD surprised at receipt of an application for a Russian translation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 18 Apr [1867] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 58–59) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5506 |
To J. V. Carus 16 September 1867
Summary
Thanks JVC for his biography [of CD].
Has almost finished first proofs of Variation.
Has difficulty in answering JVC’s queries about dogs because of differences in German names and breeds. Refers him to A. E. Brehm’s Illustrirtes Thierleben [1868] and, on pigeons, to Gottlob Neumeister’s book [Das Ganze der Taubenzucht (1837)].
Hopes JVC is not discouraged by first volume. Thinks second will be more interesting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 16 Sept 1867 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 10–13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5628 |
To J. V. Carus 8 October [1867]
Summary
CD provides explanations and advice on translating names and descriptions of breeds of fowls.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 8 Oct [1867] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 14–15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5644 |
To J. V. Carus 10 October [1867]
Summary
Sends a corrected revise to replace a sheet which has been lost in the mail.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 10 Oct [1867] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 54–55) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5645 |
To J. V. Carus 19 October [1867]
Summary
Concerning German translation of Variation. Fears chapter 27 Pangenesis is very wild, but believes physiologists will some day be compelled to admit some such doctrine.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 19 Oct [1867] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 27–28) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5653 |
To J. V. Carus 4 November [1867]
Summary
Sends corrected title of Variation and report of progress in printing.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 4 Nov [1867] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 51) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5669 |
To J. V. Carus 14 November [1867]
Summary
Sends revision of vol. 1 [of Variation]. Advance sale at auction sold 1200 copies, to CD’s great surprise. Publication delayed by index.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 14 Nov [1867] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 52–53) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5678 |
To J. V. Carus 10 December [1867]
Summary
Sends errata for German edition of Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 10 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 35–36) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5721 |
To J. V. Carus 1 February [1868]
Summary
Questions arising in German translation of Variation; its sales prospects. CD from the first has said it was very doubtful that the book was worth translating.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 1 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 29–30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5834 |
To J. V. Carus 22 February [1868]
Summary
Sends sheets of second issue [of Variation] with errata and changes to be made.
Refers to a favourable review,
and a contemptuous one in Athenæum written, he thinks, by Richard Owen [see 5931].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 22 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 33–34) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5915 |
To J. V. Carus 21 March [1868]
Summary
Corrections for German translation of Variation.
Discusses Pangenesis. CD not surprised at JVC’s unfavourable opinion. Huxley’s joke that it is more difficult to believe than Genesis. Lyell’s and Sir H. Holland’s opinions. For CD, it provides a bond for connecting many phenomena.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 21 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 31–32) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6036 |
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 |
To J. V. Carus 26 December [1866]
Summary
Requests a change in text [of ch. 12 of Origin: "Geographical distribution"] owing to recent observations of Albert Günther on the marine faunas of the eastern and western shores of South and Central America.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 26 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 57–58) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6513 |
To Julius Victor Carus 5 January 1869
Summary
Asks JVC to ascertain the age at which merino rams develop horns, and whether they grow faster or more slowly than in other breeds of sheep in which both sexes have horns.
Asks how JVC’s translation [of Variation] has sold.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 5 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 37–38) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6545 |
To J. V. Carus 5 February 1869
Summary
Thanks JVC for his information (from two correspondents) on the rate of growth of merino rams’ horns.
CD has been revising Origin [5th ed.]. Has found a good deal to alter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 5 Feb 1869 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 39–40) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6601 |
To J. V. Carus 4 May 1869
Summary
Discusses changes in 5th edition of Origin owing to new evidence. CD now places more value on action of external conditions; thinks lapse of time [required for development of species] not so great as some geologists have thought, and single variations [saltations] of even less importance compared with individual differences.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 4 May 1869 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 41–42) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6726 |
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 |
To J. V. Carus 22 October [1869]
Summary
His book [Descent] will not be ready for a year because of his health and the laboriousness of work on sexual selection. Has deferred arrangements for German translation, but would feel secure with JVC. Carl Vogt has offered to translate it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 22 Oct [1869] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 43–44) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6954 |
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