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 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 |
