To F. M. Balfour 28 January 1881
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
Jan. 28th 1881
My dear Balfour
I must write a few lines to thank you cordially for all that you have done about the letter in Nature.— The translation is as clear as daylight. For the future I shall not care if Mr. Butler calls me a liar, thief or murderer.1
Again thanking you, believe me, Yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Balfour had translated Ernst Krause’s response to Samuel Butler; it was published as a letter in Nature, 27 January 1881, p. 288 (see letter to F. M. Balfour, 12 January 1881).
Summary
Thanks FMB for translation of Ernst Krause’s letter for Nature.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13030
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Francis Maitland Balfour
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/4)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13030,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13030.xml
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