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DCP-LETT-9700

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 97
Summary:

On German translation of Descent [3d German, 2d English ed.]. Lists some misprints in proofs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9723

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Nov 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 98
Summary:

An omission in a bibliographical note in Descent [2d English ed.].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9841

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 99
Summary:

New [3d] German edition of Descent will soon be out.

Will begin translating Journal of researches, which will be first volume of CD’s collected works.

JVC has proposed bringing out all CD’s botanical papers in one or two volumes.

Errata in Descent enclosed.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9937

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 100
Summary:

Sends concluding part of his Zoologie [see 8531].

Enjoys translating Journal of researches. Questions several passages.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10021

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
17 June [1875]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 143–144)
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.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10038

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
1 July [1875]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 145–146)
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.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10126

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
19 Aug 1875
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 133–134)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10198

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
14 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 135–136)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10269

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
22 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 127–128)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10313

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
21 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
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)
Summary:

Encloses a correction [for Climbing plants, 2d ed.]. Asa Gray made a mistake in name of species of Passiflora.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10323

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
25 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 137–138)
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.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10422

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
21 Mar 1876
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 139–140)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10426

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
23 Mar 1876
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 141–142)
Summary:

Clarifies a passage [in Coral reefs, 2d ed. (1874)], which JVC had questioned.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10468

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
24 Apr 1876
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 152–153)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10619

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
27 Sept 1876
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 147–148)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10627

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
[early Oct 1876]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 66–67)
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.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10645

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
18 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 68–69)
Summary:

Proof sheets [of Cross and self-fertilisation] have been lost.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10654

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
25 Oct 1876
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 149)
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.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10686

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
23 Nov 1876
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 150–151)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10730

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
20 Dec 1876
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 154–155)
Summary:

Sends an omitted reference to an article by Dr Ascherson [Bot. Ztg. (1871): 444 et seq.] for Cross and self-fertilisation.

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