From W. S. Dallas 18 August 1879
Margate
18 August 1879
My dear Mr. Darwin
I arrived here late on Saturday & found that my son had written for the small portion of Dr. Krause’s original matter which I had brought here to finish, & at the same time mentioned that from some expressions used in your letter, he inferred that you had not received the whole of my MS. translation.— I sent the MS. off on the 6th. August, in two packets registered, so that I hope there is no ground for my son’s apprehensions.—1
I also hope that the translation is satisfactory, although of course it will want a little polishing as it goes through the press, the difficulty of merely reading the MS. German being often considerable.
My son has I hope before now sent you the two or three quotations, from Monboddo & Craik which I was unable to get at before I left town, but if the work as it stands is, as he says, much too lengthy, probably these will be among the things cut out.—2
I shall be very glad to hear from you if you can find time to write a few lines.—
Yours very truly | W. S. Dallas
C. Darwin Esq
CD annotations
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
WSD sent MS of his translation of Erasmus Darwin on 6 August. Hopes CD received all of it.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12197
- From
- William Sweetland Dallas
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Margate
- Source of text
- DAR 99: 118–19
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12197,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12197.xml