From Samuel Butler 2 January 1880
Summary
Asks CD for reference to the edition of Kosmos that contains the original of Ernst Krause’s article on Dr Erasmus Darwin. There are serious differences between the translation by W. S. Dallas and the Feb [1879] article by Krause on which CD, in the preface to Erasmus Darwin, says it was based. SB notes in particular that the concluding sentence of the translation, which is clearly aimed at [SB’s] Evolution, old and new, is not in the original. Since readers will assume the text of Erasmus Darwin was written before his book appeared, SB asks for an explanation.
Author: | Samuel Butler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B65–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12393 |
From Samuel Butler 21 January 1880
Summary
SB has decided to lay the matter [the subject of 12393 and 12396] before the public and has written to the Athenæum stating the facts. [Athenæum 31 Jan 1880.]
Author: | Samuel Butler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12438 |
From Samuel Butler 1 October 1865
Summary
Autobiographical letter describing how, when he could not conscientiously take orders, he went to New Zealand and has now returned to England to study art.
Fascinated and delighted by Origin
and is pleased that his pamphlet [Evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ] pleases CD.
Author: | Samuel Butler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: A1–2; Butler 1923, pp. 198–201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4904 |
From Samuel Butler 11 May 1872
Summary
His chapter on machines in Erewhon has been misunderstood as laughing at the Origin. He was only trying to show how an absurd proposition can be defended with a little ingenuity, distortion, and departure from strict scientific method. Will explain in a second edition, if one is called for.
Author: | Samuel Butler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 May 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: A3–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8318 |
From Samuel Butler 30 May 1872
Summary
Thanks CD for his note and cheque for young May.
Will send copy of second edition of Erewhon, in which he has set himself straight about "having intended no villainy by the machines". [See 8318.]
Author: | Samuel Butler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 May 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: A8–10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8361 |
From Samuel Butler 15 April 1873
Summary
Thanks CD for his kind letter about The fair haven [1873]. Encouraged by its reception. All he wants is to compel "an attitude of fixed attention in the place of cowardly shrinking from examination". Says he will try "a novel pure and simple with little ""purpose"" next".
Author: | Samuel Butler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Apr 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: A11–12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8859 |
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Darwin, C. R. |