To Ernst Krause 4 January [1881]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
Jan 4th
My dear Sir
I have received Kosmos & your letter.2 I thank you heartily for it. Nothing could be better, & your account of how it came to pass about Buffon & Coleridge is perfectly clear.3 My daughter has as yet only roughly translated to me the article in Kosmos & your letter,4 but I have not yet heard the answer to Butler about the extracts. I shd. much like to see your article in Kosmos translated & published in England; but I believe that Mr. Butler wishes for notoriety, & wd be pleased at its publication, for as he is utterly unscrupulous he would call me & you liars & rogues. I will consult one or two wise men, & be guided by their opinion. Anyhow I can at any time have the satisfaction of referring anyone who doubts my word to Kosmos.— Again I thank you most truly.— I will write again, when I see my way.—
My dear Sir | yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
P.S | I have now had your letter for Pop. Science read aloud to me.—5 It is quite excellent, & perhaps wd suffice without a translation of article in Kosmos.— But I will get good judgment.
I suppose you do not care whether it is published in Athenæum which has larger sale than in Dallas’s Journal.—6 I lean to the latter.—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Butler, Samuel. 1879. Evolution, old and new: or, the theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, and Lamarck, as compared with that of Mr. Charles Darwin. London: Hardwicke and Bogue.
Butler, Samuel. 1880. Unconscious memory: a comparison between the theory of Dr. Ewald Hering, … and the ‘Philosophy of the unconscious’ of Dr. Edward von Hartmann. London: David Bogue.
Krause, Ernst. 1881b. Unconscious memory by Samuel Butler. Kosmos 8 (1880–1): 321–2.
Summary
CD is pleased with EK’s account in Kosmos [8 (1880–1): 321–2] of the Buffon and Coleridge passage [cited by Samuel Butler, see 12939, 12969]. Would like a translation published in England, but Butler seeks notoriety and would make unscrupulous use of it. Will ask advice. Thinks EK’s letter to Popular Science Monthly, just received, an excellent reply to Butler.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12976
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- The Huntington Library (HM 36211)
- Physical description
- ALS 5pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12976,” accessed on 19 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12976.xml