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Darwin Correspondence Project

To C.-F. Reinwald   11 September 1879

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

Sep 11. 79

Dear Sir,

I have dispatched this morning all the remaining sheets of the little life of Dr Darwin. Dr Krause intends in the German edition to add a good many pages from Miss Sewards ‘Life’; and these have not appeared to me worth publishing in England,1 but if you bring out a french translation they would be worth Monsieur Barbier’s consideration2

Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

See letter to C.-F. Reinwald, 2 September [1879] and n. 2. In preparing Erasmus Darwin, CD decided to exclude parts of Ernst Krause’s text that repeated material from previously published English sources, such as Anna Seward’s Memoirs of the life of Dr. Darwin (Seward 1804); Krause wished to retain this material for the German edition (see letter from Ernst Krause, 1 September 1879).
Edmond Barbier had translated some of CD’s works into French.

Bibliography

Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1879.

Seward, Anna. 1804. Memoirs of the life of Dr. Darwin. London: J. Johnson.

Summary

Has sent remaining sheets for proposed French translation of Erasmus Darwin. Edmond Barbier should consider the pages from Seward’s Life that have been cut from the English edition.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-12225
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Sent from
Down
Source of text
University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 64)
Physical description
LS 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12225,” accessed on 19 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12225.xml

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