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Darwin Correspondence Project

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

Footnotes

The year range is established by the headed notepaper, which is of a sort that CD used from November 1874.
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.

Summary

Turns down an offer to undertake a German translation of one of his works.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-9828G
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Unidentified
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017)
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9828G,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9828G.xml

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