To J. V. Carus 15 October [1872]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Oct 15th
My dear Sir
Many thanks. It is too late until more copies are printed off.— I saw a cast of the statue in Cambridge & copied the name with the greatest care!2 Yet, as on many other occasions, I have blundered.— No Frenchman has a greater tendency to spell all proper names wrongly than I have.—
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from J. V. Carus, 11 October 1872.
See letter from J. V. Carus, 11 October 1872 and n. 1. The reference is to the sculpture Arrotino.
Summary
Thanks JVC for correcting his blunder on spelling of "Arrotino" [see Expression, p. 184]. "No Frenchman has a greater tendency to spell all proper names wrongly than I have."
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8559
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Julius Victor Carus
- Sent from
- Sevenoaks Down letterhead
- Source of text
- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 94–95)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8559,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8559.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
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