Darwin Correspondence Project

Down. | Beckenham | Kent. S.E.

Oct 30 1869

My dear Sir

I thank you very much for yr letter & for your proposal about the translation, which I look at as a very great honour; & I feel certain that it wd have made my book much more widely known— But I have already partly agreed with Carus, & now that I hear for the first time about the loss of the professorship I will write at once & tell him what you have said, & will propose to him to make the best bargain he can with any publisher in Germany whom he may prefer. I am much obliged to you for giving me this information with so much kind sympathy for Carus.

As Leukart is so distinguished a man, I hope that Carus holding my views may be only a very secondary cause of the loss of the professorship.

With my cordial thanks for yr proposal about the translation, so honourable to me, & with the hope that I may some time have the real pleasure of making your personal acquaintance I remain my dear Sir | yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin

P.S. I may add that my book will not be ready for a considerable time, but my publisher insisted on a notice.