From E. A. Darwin 20 May [1880]1
May 20
Dear Charles—
Thanks for the two pamphlets. That by Zöckler is I think entirely worthless Just got up for a lecture out of you & Krause.2 Being Prof of Theology he winds up by saying that he does not enter into the question whether your theories are true—or only castles in the air & a Fata Morgana.3 Poor Price must have a bad time coming & I will do what you suggest.4
Yours affec | EAD
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.
Ferrari, Henri. 1880. Érasme Darwin. [Review of Erasmus Darwin.] Revue scientifique de la France et de l’étranger 2d ser. 9: 1090–4.
Zöckler, Otto. 1880. Darwin’s Großvater als Arzt, Dichter und Naturphilosoph. Ein Beitrag zur Vorgeschichte des Darwinismus. In Sammlung von Vorträgen für das deutsche Volk, edited by Wilhelm Frommel and Friedrich Pfaff, vol. 3. Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung.
Summary
Thanks for two pamphlets;
Otto Zöckler’s [Darwin’s Grossvater (1880)] he thinks worthless.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12611
- From
- Erasmus Alvey Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 105: B112
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12611,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12611.xml