From J. V. Carus   5 April 1874

Leipzig,

Apr 5th. 1874.

My dear Sir,

I shall come to London to-morrow week and stay there till Wednesday after-noon. If I shall be able to see you this time, I am not quite sure, as I am rather pressed with my time. But on my return from Edinburgh1 in the beginning of August I shall try again to find you   This time I bring Mrs. Carus and two daughters with me, whom I should not like to carry too-much about.2 So, if you should happen to hear from Dr Günther3 that I passed through London, pray excuse me if I did not try to pay you my respects personally, as I wished and have wished to do these many years

I am rather in haste, as it is always hard work to prepare work without one’s library and all the rest for four months coming.

Believe me to be | Yours always truly, | J. Victor Carus

1
Carus gave a course of lectures on natural history at the University of Edinburgh (see letter from J. V. Carus, 19 January 1874 and n. 2).
2
Carus’s wife was Sophie Catherine Carus. He had three daughters: Agnes Marie Elisabeth, Anne Sophie Gertrud, and Louise Charlotte Johanna.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9391,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9391