To Ernst Krause 19 March 1879
The transcript of this letter is not yet available online.
Summary
Sends copy of a lecture [by John Dowson, see 11949] published in 1861.
Has not yet found a copy of Anna Seward’s biography for EK. It is a wretched, inaccurate book. To contradict Anna Seward’s version, CD intends to write a short preface to the translation of EK’s essay. Doubts that it will be worth translating into German.
Summary
Sends copy of a lecture [by John Dowson, see 11949] published in 1861.
Has not yet found a copy of Anna Seward’s biography for EK. It is a wretched, inaccurate book. To contradict Anna Seward’s version, CD intends to write a short preface to the translation of EK’s essay. Doubts that it will be worth translating into German.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11944
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- The Huntington Library (HM 36177)
- Physical description
- 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11944,” accessed on 11 December 2019, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-11944.xml
