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Darwin Correspondence Project

From W. S. Dallas   15 March 1879

Geological Society, | Burlington House, W.

15 March 1879

My dear Sir

My letter of yesterday will be a sufficient answer to your inquiry whether I will translate M. Krause’s biography of Erasmus Darwin,— I shall be very happy to do so, & in fact it will suit me better to have it later than at present.—1 I sent the Kosmos by book post.—2

Believe me | Yours very truly | W. S. Dallas

C. Darwin Esq

Footnotes

See letter from W. S. Dallas, 14 March 1879. CD had evidently written to warn Dallas that the translation would be delayed by Ernst Krause’s work on the original text; his letter has not been found. Krause’s ‘Erasmus Darwin’ was published in Kosmos in February 1879 (Krause 1879a).
CD had sent Dallas his copy of the issue of Kosmos including Krause 1879a.

Bibliography

Krause, Ernst. 1879a. Erasmus Darwin, der Großvater und Vorkämpfer Charles Darwin’s: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Descendenz-Theorie. Kosmos 4 (1878–9): 397–424.

Summary

Repeats his willingness to translate E. Krause’s "Erasmus Darwin".

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-11937
From
William Sweetland Dallas
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
Geological Society
Source of text
DAR 99: 101
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11937,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11937.xml

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