To Ernst Krause 13 February 1880
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Feb 13./80
My dear Sir
I thank you heartily for your most kind letter.1 I write now merely to say that April 10th on the Epitaph is a dreadful mistake, made by the copyist, & I cannot think how I overlooked it, but I very often overlook errata.2
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
CD had not noticed the error in Erasmus Darwin, p. 127 (see letter from Ernst Krause, 10 February 1880 and n. 3).
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.
Summary
Thanks EK for kind letter.
CD’s date on epitaph is a dreadful mistake. CD often overlooks errata.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12476
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- The Huntington Library (HM 36202)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12476,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12476.xml
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