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To ?   13 December [1869]1

Down. | Beckenham | Kent. S.E.

Dec. 13

Dear Sir

Will you be so good as to inform Mr Duncker that I have given the right of Translation of my next book, with all profit from such right, to Profr. Victor Carus of Leipzig; so that Mr. D, if, he thinks fit, may communicate direct with him.— I imagine that he will publish with Herr Koch of Stuttgart.— My book will not be ready for a considerable time.2

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to J. V. Carus, 30 October 1869 (Correspondence vol. 17).
2
Alexander Duncker was a German publisher. CD’s next book was Descent, published in 1871. He had asked Julius Victor Carus to translate it, but left the final choice of publisher to Carus (Correspondence vol. 17, letter to J. V. Carus, 9 November [1869]). Eduard Koch of E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung was Carus’s usual publisher, and did in fact publish the German translation of Descent (Carus trans. 1871).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 Beckenham] interl before del ‘Bromley.’
1.2 such] after del ‘same’

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