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
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 30 (Supplement)
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