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To ?   23 January [1875–82]1

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

Jan. 23d

Dear Sir

Mr Murray has forwarded to me your letter of the 20th. I am much obliged for your offer, but I have already agreed with Herr Koch & Prof. Victor Carus for a Translation.2 I have the honour to remain | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
The year range is established by the headed notepaper, which is of a sort that CD used from November 1874.
2
See this volume, Supplement, letter to John Murray, 23 January [1875–82]. Murray was CD’s publisher. The letter of 20 January has not been found. Julius Victor Carus had been CD’s German translator since 1866 (see Correspondence vol. 14). Eduard Koch was the director of E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Carus’s publisher.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9828G,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9828G