To R. F. Cooke 4 October [1879]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Oct 4th
My dear Sir
My preliminary notice has long been corrected & ready for press; & Mr Dallas has long had first proofs of Krause’s part, but there has been delay about the latter as K. was away from home & Mr Dallas wanted him to read over the Translation. I heard, however, this morning from Krause that he has returned proofs to Mr. D. who will now merely have to look at Revises.2
Title-Page & Preface all complete.— The Autotype Portrait is all ready to be printed off.—3 Really my opinion is worth nothing, but if I had published the book on commission, I shd have printed off only 1000 copies.—4 I am very glad that type will be kept up. Will you kindly give order for stereotype plates of type & 2 woodcuts for Mess Appleton of New York. They will arrange about the Portrait—5
With respect to advertisement, it does not agree with Title, but it is perhaps better, as giving better notion of what the little book is; but you must decide whether it is too great a departure from Title: I give Title on Back6
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Erasmus Darwin
by
Ernest Krause
translated by W. D. Dallas
with a preliminary Notice
by
Charles Darwin
To Krause’s part there is a fly-title
The Scientific Works
of
Erasmus Darwin
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.
Erasmus Darwin US ed.: Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1880.
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
Final arrangements for publishing Erasmus Darwin. If he were publishing on commission he would have printed only 1000 copies.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12247
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 362–3)
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12247,” accessed on 30 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12247.xml