From W. S. Dallas 28 August 1879
Margate
28 August 1879
My dear Mr Darwin
I thought I would give you time to get a little settled at home before answering your last kind letter, & indeed I don’t know that I have very much to say.—1 Of course as the translation of Krause was made to be used by you as suited you best I can have no just cause of complaint at the suppression of any part of it, & I am only too glad when you give me an opportunity of being of service to you in any way.— The proofs I will do my best to correct & improve, but I shall have to ask you to send me the German original when the proofs come to me as I shall have to consult it in critical cases.— I don’t know whether you are aware that Dr. Krause proposes (or proposed) to publish the whole of his essay in German & requested me to send him the MS. when done with.— Shall I forward it to him with the corrected proofs? for I think it will be better that he should have the proofs after I have been over them.—2
The question of payment had better stand over until after the matter is in type,— my original calculation was made from the printed matter & from the way in which the work has been done I am quite at sea as to quantity,— moreover a great deal of the translation will be useless to you.—3
Believe me | Yours very truly | W. S. Dallas
We return to town on Monday & I shall be at Geol. Soc. from Tuesday next onwards.—4
Footnotes
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.
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.
Krause, Ernst. 1880. Erasmus Darwin und seine Stellung in der Geschichte der Descendenz-Theorie von Ernst Krause. Mit seinem Lebens- und Charakterbilde von Charles Darwin. Leipzig: Ernst Günther.
Summary
He has no cause to complain at CD’s suppression of parts of his translation. Will do his best to correct and improve the proofs.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12202
- From
- William Sweetland Dallas
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Margate
- Source of text
- DAR 99: 120–1
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12202,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12202.xml