To Ernst Krause 12 July [1879]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
July 12th
My dear Sir
Your letter has been a great relief to my mind, for I had got to hate my Notice.2 Of 2 relations whom I can trust one says that she thinks it dull & ought to be much shortened with parts omitted & parts differently arranged, & the other (my Brother) thinks it interesting & wants nothing omitted. A third advises me to shorten about Mrs. Schimmelpenninck.—3
My plan is to take all materials with me to the Lakes, when we go on August 1st for a month’s change & rest, & by that time Mr. Dallas hopes to have whole Translation finished.4
I am extremely glad that you think much need not be omitted either in mine or your article.
A new idea strikes me on which I will reflect: viz that my notice shd. appear after yours & be called “An or Supplementary or additional notice” or some such Title.
You can keep the Proofs, & I will send corrected ones, as soon as such are ready.5
I will write to U. States to enquire if Ms Appleton will bring out Edition there.—6
I am very sorry to hear about Grant Allen: I have not yet read your article.— My memory has grown very poor & I cannot recollect much of what you wrote; but I remember being struck with it,—so much so, that I sent the number to Mr Gladstone to read.7 I do not know Mr Grant Allen personally, & never saw him but feel inclined to like & respect him from his writings, & I am very sorry for him for he writes under very trying circumstances. Therefore I grieve that he shd. have been guilty of plagiarism.—8
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Allen, Grant. 1879a. The colour-sense: its origin and development. An essay in comparative psychology. London: Trübner & Co.
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. 1877a. Die Geschichtliche Entwicklung des Farbensinnes. [Essay review of Hugo Magnus’s Die geschichtliche Entwickelung des Farbensinnes.] Kosmos 1: 264–75.
Krause, Ernst. 1879b. Nachschrift über Ideen-Adoptiv-Väter. Kosmos 5: 319–24.
Summary
Relieved to hear that EK approves of his notice [preface for Erasmus Darwin]. Is reflecting on idea that it might appear after EK’s article as "an additional or supplementary notice".
Grieved to hear that Grant Allen has been accused of plagiarism.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12150
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- The Huntington Library (HM 36189)
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12150,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12150.xml