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To J. V. Carus   11 October [1870]1

Down. | Beckenham | Kent. S.E.

Oct 11th.

My dear Sir

I send by this post the four first sheets of my book.2

Mr. Murray charges £14 for 64 stereotypes, & this I think is very reasonable as the cost of casting is £7 & the profit £7. Your publisher if he thinks fit, had better communicate direct with Mr. Murray of Albemarle St.3 Please to observe that I give 14 handsome woodcuts from Brehm of which I cannot supply copies.4 These are not indispensable but it would be a pity if they were omitted. I enclose a list.5 Your publisher might negociate for stereotypes of these from the publisher of Brehm’s Thierleben

My dear Sir, yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

LS

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to J. V. Carus, 5 October [1870].
2
John Murray had written that he would soon send four sets of sheets of Descent (see letter from John Murray, 10 October [1870]); Carus was to translate Descent into German (see letter from J. V. Carus, 2 October 1870, and Carus trans. 1871).
3
See letter from John Murray, 10 October [1870]. Carus’s publisher was E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagshandlung, headed by Eduard Koch.
4
CD planned to include in Descent woodcuts from Alfred Edmund Brehm’s multi-volume work on natural history (Brehm et al. 1864–9).
5
The enclosure has not been found. For CD’s initial list, and the published woodcuts, see Correspondence vol. 16, letter to Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 31 December 1868 and n. 1.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7340,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7340