From W. S. Dallas 15 July 1879
Geological Society, | Burlington House, | W.
15 July 1879
My dear Sir
I have to thank you for sending me the volumes of Dr. Erasmus Darwin’s works, which arrived safely yesterday.— I am now going steadily on with the Translation of Dr. Krause, &, having cleared everything else out of the way, shall push on rapidly.—1 Within a fortnight I hope to let you have the whole MS.
I am struggling to get away for my holiday as soon as possible, but hardly expect to succeed before the 27th. or 28th., & then we are condemned to stay at Margate as being the most favourable place for our young daughter who has taken it into her head to get weakly & to have fainting fits, to the great alarm of her mother,—& indeed of all of us.—2 I hope the change there will do her good, in which case we must not grumble, & indeed I am told by many people that in itself Margate is a very nice place.—
Hoping that you may derive much benefit from your trip to the Lake-district,3 | I am, | Yours very truly | W. S. Dallas
C. Darwin Esq
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.
Summary
Thanks CD for sending volumes of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s works. Hopes to finish Krause’s MS in a fortnight.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12161
- From
- William Sweetland Dallas
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Geological Society
- Source of text
- DAR 99: 110–11
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12161,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12161.xml