To Ernst Krause 5 January 1880
Summary
The reviews of Erasmus Darwin are mainly favourable.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 5 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36198) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12403 |
To Ernst Krause 19 January 1880
Summary
Replies to EK’s queries about German translation of CD’s preface to Erasmus Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 19 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36199) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12434 |
To Ernst Krause 4 February 1880
Summary
Samuel Butler’s fierce attack on CD and EK in Athenæum. CD’s sentence saying that EK had altered his Kosmos article was accidentally omitted from second proofs. Butler insinuates that EK’s attack on his book was suggested by CD or interpolated by him in EK’s text.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 4 Feb 1880 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36200) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12459 |
To Ernst Krause [12 December 1880]
Summary
CD is pleased that EK will answer Butler. Thinks Butler is half insane.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | [12 Dec 1880] |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36203) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12465 |
To Ernst Krause 9 February 1880
Summary
CD advises EK on his proposed letter answering Butler.
Considering the favourable reviews, sale of Erasmus Darwin has been poor.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 9 Feb 1880 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36201) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12468 |
To Ernst Krause 13 February 1880
Summary
Thanks EK for kind letter.
CD’s date on epitaph is a dreadful mistake. CD often overlooks errata.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 13 Feb 1880 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36202) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12476 |
To Ernst Krause 23 March 1880
Summary
Regrets delay of photographs [for German edition of Erasmus Darwin].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 23 Mar 1880 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36204) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12543 |
To Ernst Krause 21 April 1880
Summary
Glad to receive the German edition of Erasmus Darwin. Hopes sales will be good. Favourable review has appeared in the United States, in the Nation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 21 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36205) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12586 |
To Ernst Krause 29 July 1880
Summary
Thanks EK for two articles about Erasmus Darwin.
Does not think it right that he should receive Kosmos free. Asks for a bill for subscription.
Has not heard from J. Murray if there is any profit on Erasmus Darwin, but "vehementer dubito".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 29 July 1880 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36206) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12674 |
To Ernst Krause 30 July 1880
Summary
Profit on Erasmus Darwin is £9 15s 5d. Sends cheque. 218 copies remain unsold.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 30 July 1880 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36207); DAR 210.11: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12675 |
To Ernst Krause 7 October 1880
Summary
Insists that EK take the profits from the English edition of Erasmus Darwin. EK’s essay is the valuable part of the book; CD’s is mainly gossip.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 7 Oct 1880 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36208) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12740 |
To Ernst Krause 28 November 1880
Summary
Bad news about Kosmos [ceasing publication].
Fritz Müller’s losses [in a flood]; "I have long looked on him as the best observer in the world."
EK’s astonishing account of crustacean that repairs its legs in an ancestral form seems to support Pangenesis, which has hardly any friends.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 28 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36209) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12871 |
To Ernst Krause 26 December 1880
Summary
CD’s sons tell him that Samuel Butler in Unconscious memory states that some passages in Erasmus Darwin were taken from his Evolution, old and new. Their unprejudiced view is that the passages do come from Butler. CD hopes EK will give a clear explanation if he writes on the matter in Kosmos.
CD is taking no public notice of Butler’s attack on himself.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 26 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36210) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12939 |
