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To J. V. Carus   19 August 1875

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

Aug 19. 75

My dear Sir

I enclose some errata in Insectivorous Plants  I am now correcting the proof sheets of my “Climbing Plants” which will be published early in November and is I think worth translation.1

At the same time a new & much corrected Edit of my Variation under Domestication will be published; and should a new German edit ever be wanted, I hope that you will correct it.2 I will keep the old proof-sheets, which may guide you to the parts which are materially altered. This work will never be altered again.

I hope that you are enjoying your holiday & that it will do your health good3

My dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

LS

1
Carus had agreed to translate Insectivorous plants into German (Carus trans. 1876a; see letter from J. V. Carus, 28 June 1875). Climbing plants 2d ed. was published in the first half of November 1875 (Publishers’ circular, 16 November 1875, p. 932); Carus’s translation appeared in 1876 (Carus trans. 1876b).
2
Variation 2d ed. has an 1875 imprint but was published in the second half of February 1876 (Publishers’ circular, 1 March 1876, p. 168). A second German edition, based on the corrected first English edition, had been published in 1873 (Carus trans. 1873), so the new German edition was the third (Carus trans. 1878a).
3
Carus suffered from breathing difficulties and had planned to visit a spa (see letter from J. V. Carus, 28 June 1875).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10126,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10126