To J. V. Carus 28 April 1880
Summary
MS of Movement in plants in final stage. Fears it will displease many German physiologists. It is an attempt to bring all the diversified movements of plants under one general law or system.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 28 Apr 1880 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 176–178) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12593 |
To J. V. Carus 14 September 1880
Summary
Sends sheets of Movement in plants for translation, if JVC sees fit. It has some value and novelty, CD believes, but is very dull.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 14 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 179–180) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12713 |
From J. V. Carus 18 September 1880
Summary
Will be happy to translate CD’s new book [Movement in plants]. Asks how large the book will be.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 113 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12716 |
To J. V. Carus 21 September 1880
Summary
CD is ashamed of length of Movement in plants – with index, nearly 600 pages. JVC will be awfully sick of ch. 1.
In intervals of correcting proofs, he is writing on the formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms. It will be a curious little book [Earthworms].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 21 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 181–182) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12718 |
From J. V. Carus 20 November 1880
Summary
Some sheets [of Movement in plants] are missing. Is delighted with its "lesson of methods of observation patience and thought".
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 114 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12831 |
To J. V. Carus 22 November 1880
Summary
Very pleased by JVC’s note about Movement in plants. Feared he would find it intolerably dull. Some missing sheets are being replaced. Also sends a perfect copy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 22 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 183–184) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12840 |
To J. V. Carus 23 March 1881
Summary
Thanks JVC for corrections of Movement in plants. Sends a clarifying sentence.
Earthworms nearly done – "a small book of little moment".
Reports his health is better than it was, "but I have little strength & feel very old".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 23 Mar 1881 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 185–186) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13096 |
To J. V. Carus 18 May 1881
Summary
Ernst Krause wishes to publish a section of Earthworms in Kosmos. CD has consented. Hopes JVC will not object. He feels under obligation to Krause.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 18 May 1881 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 187–188) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13164 |
From J. V. Carus 21 May 1881
Summary
Discusses Ernst Krause’s publication of an extract from Earthworms translated into German in the journal Kosmos.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 198: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13169F |
From J. V. Carus 24 June 1881
Summary
Koch [of Schweizerbart, publisher of CD’s works in Germany and also publisher of Kosmos] has asked JVC to translate Earthworms and send one chapter of it to Kosmos for advance separate publication. He thinks a chapter on the practical work of the earthworms would be most interesting to the general reader.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 June 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13216 |
To J. V. Carus 29 June 1881
Summary
CD will soon finish corrections [of Earthworms] for printer, and then clean sheets will be sent to JVC for translation of the book and to Ernst Krause. The subject has been a "hobby-horse" with CD, and he has perhaps treated it in foolish detail. Has told Krause he does not think any part of the MS suitable for Kosmos, but Krause must decide.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 29 June 1881 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 189–190) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13227 |
To J. V. Carus 30 July 1881
Summary
Delay in publication [of Earthworms] vexes CD, as he likes to throw a subject off his mind.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 30 July 1881 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 191–192) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13259 |
To J. V. Carus 2 November 1881
Summary
Sends corrections ("two bad errata & a blunder") in Earthworms, which is selling well in England.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 2 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 193–194) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13454 |
To J. V. Carus 26 November 1881
Summary
Sends some additions and corrections he has made in the 5th thousand, [of Earthworms] now being printed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 26 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 195–196) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13512 |
From J. V. Carus 6 December 1881
Summary
Lists errata in Earthworms, which he is translating.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Dec 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 116 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13533 |
To J. V. Carus 8 December 1881
Summary
Thanks JVC for his corrections of "stupid errata" [in Earthworms]. Explains, in answer to JVC’s query, that he has used the word "humus" as the equivalent of vegetable mould.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 8 Dec 1881 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 197–198) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13537 |
From Julius Victor Carus 7 November 1866
Summary
JVC has been asked by Schweizerbart [CD’s German publisher] to revise H. G. Bronn’s translation of Origin, and he will be pleased to try to do it.
Asks CD’s advice on what to do about Bronn’s notes and concluding chapter, with which JVC disagrees. Would CD agree to omission?
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Nov 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5269 |
To J. V. Carus 10 November 1866
Summary
Expresses gratification that JVC is to undertake new translation and revision of German edition of the Origin.
Has heard many complaints about Bronn’s translation. JVC would be justified in omitting Bronn’s appendix.
Suggests additions and changes, including reference to C. W. v. Nägeli’s Entstehung und Begriff [1865], though he disagrees with it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 10 Nov 1866 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 1–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5273 |
From J. V. Carus 15 November 1866
Summary
JVC proposes to correct Bronn’s mistakes [in his translation of Origin], but will not add his own notes.
Asks CD to write a note on Nägeli’s pamphlet [Entstehung und Begriff] for the revised edition.
Also requests biographical information for an encyclopedia article he has been asked to write.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Nov 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5279 |
To J. V. Carus 21 November 1866
Summary
Answers some question about species.
Sends biographical sketch.
Now considers that a note on Nägeli would have to be too long to include. Discusses his differences with Nägeli. Cannot believe in spontaneous generation. At present the principle of life seems to him beyond the confines of science.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 21 Nov 1866 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 4–5a); DAR 143: 212 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5282 |
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