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To J. V. Carus   22 November 1880

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

Nov. 22d/80

My dear Sir

Your note has pleased me exceedingly, for I fully expected that you would find the book intolerably dull, though the result of much labour.—1

I have written for the missing sheets & they shall be despatched on arrival.—

I am sure that they were sent to you, & you will some day discover them amongst your papers.

As I remember that you like to keep a perfect copy of my books, I despatched one yesterday by the Post.—2

My dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

I am now at work on a very little book on Worms3

1
See letter from J. V. Carus, 20 November 1880. Carus had been receiving proof-sheets of Movement in plants to complete his German translation.
2
Carus’s name appears on CD’s presentation list for Movement in plants (see Appendix IV).
3
Earthworms.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12840,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12840