To J. V. Carus   9 November [1869]1

Down. | Beckenham | Kent. S.E.

Nov. 9th

My dear Sir

I write a line to thank you for your letter & say how very glad I am to hear that I was partly mistaken about the Professorship.—2 What you say does not make the slightest differences in my wishes.—3

Herr. Hoffmann of Stuttgart has applied to me, since I wrote to you, for the right of Translation.— I have simply told Herr Koch that I had communicated with you on the subject of my next book, & it will rest with you to decide whether to prefer him.—4

In Haste | My dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from J. V. Carus, 6 November 1869.
3
CD wanted Carus to translate Descent.
4
No letter from Carl Hoffmann, a publisher in Stuttgart, has been found. The most recent extant letter to the publisher Eduard Koch is that of 4 November 1869.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 Beckenham] before del ‘Bromley.’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-6981,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-6981