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To Leonard Darwin   12 July [1879]1

July 12

My dear old Lenny

…

I am quite ready to shorten or leave out many parts, but at present I cannot agree that it is not worth while to say something about the family—2 I know that I myself, and some others, always wish to hear this, and Krause wrote to beg for some information as to family before he knew that I intended to say anything on the subject3

…4

Footnotes

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Leonard Darwin, [before 12 July] 1879.
2
In his letter of [before 12 July] 1879, Leonard had suggested omitting the text relating to the ancestry of the Darwin family in CD’s preliminary notice to Erasmus Darwin.
4
The ellipses at the beginning and end of the letter are in the copy.

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

Will shorten or leave out many parts [of Erasmus Darwin] but cannot agree that it is not worth while to say something about the family.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-12153
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Leonard Darwin
Sent from
Down
Source of text
DAR 153: 93
Physical description
C 1p inc

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12153,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12153.xml

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