From Ernst Krause 10 February 1879
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11868 |
From Ernst Krause 12 March 1879
Summary
Glad CD is pleased by his "Erasmus Darwin". Was not able to obtain book by Anna Seward [Memoirs of the life of Dr Darwin (1804)]. Could CD check relevant passages for errors? Would be great honour if CD could arrange English translation. Wants to enlarge essay into book.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B15–16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11925 |
From Ernst Krause 17 March 1879
Summary
Had doubts about excerpt from Anna Seward’s book [Life of Dr Darwin]. Sends slightly enlarged version of his "Erasmus Darwin". Includes footnote denouncing Seward’s book.
Finds that part 2 of ED’s Botanic garden, 2d ed. (1790), appeared before part 1 (1791).
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B17–18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11942 |
From Ernst Krause 24 March 1879
Summary
Thanks for sketch of Erasmus Darwin by John Dowson [see Erasmus Darwin, p. iv]; would like to incorporate this information into MS. Previous biographers of Erasmus Darwin had insufficient knowledge of what appeared in his works.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B19–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11949 |
From Ernst Krause 30 March 1879
Summary
Wants to finish revision of MS on Erasmus Darwin before Dallas begins translation. Has discussed possible German edition with Carl Alberts.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11961 |
From Ernst Krause 5 May 1879
Summary
Sends first part of MS of Erasmus Darwin.
Has found useful criticism of Anna Seward in J. G. Lockhart’s Life of Sir Walter Scott.
CD should regard MS as a draft and correct anything that seems incorrect or questionable. Asks biographical questions about Dr Darwin. Can CD give information about origin of family name?
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 May 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B22–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12032 |
From Ernst Krause 8 May 1879
Summary
Will wait for CD’s preliminary essay before proceeding with German edition [of Erasmus Darwin]. Regards CD’s essay as the principal attraction. Would like to finish German edition by end of July.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 May 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B24–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12038 |
From Ernst Krause 15 May 1879
Summary
Thanks for answers to questions [in 12032].
Has ordered the new book by Butler [Evolution, old and new (1879)]. It may make EK’s own essay superfluous.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 May 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12053 |
From Ernst Krause 23 May 1879
Summary
Samuel Butler seems not even to have read works of Erasmus Darwin. Quotes only passages quoted by other authors. Thorough account now more necessary than ever.
CD’s preliminary notice should be incorporated in German edition completely unchanged, though some annotation is needed to explain matters unfamiliar to German readers.
Would like to have article by CD for Kosmos.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 May 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12060 |
From Ernst Krause 7 June 1879
Summary
Hopes to send last part of his work soon. CD may lay it aside or print only parts of it. Wants to add account of evolutionists before Erasmus Darwin. Superficial account by Samuel Butler makes this necessary.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 June 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12092 |
From Ernst Krause 13 June 1879
Summary
Has completed his MS and sent it to Dallas.
Has ignored Butler’s criticism of natural selection and corrected only his views of Buffon and Goethe.
It would be best to drop EK’s text from book and quote only certain portions of it.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 June 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B29–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12105 |
From Ernst Krause 10 July 1879
Summary
Has received printed sheets from CD. Hopes CD does not intend to delete anything. EK comments on value of his own sketch for Erasmus Darwin.
Hopes CD can excuse article he wrote in response to a review of Grant Allen’s book [The colour-sense (1879)].
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 July 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B31–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12143 |
From Ernst Krause 16 July 1879
Summary
Rejects proposal that CD’s sketch appear as a supplement or appendix to his own. Offers alternative suggestions. Proposes title-page for German edition of Erasmus Darwin.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B33–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12162 |
From Ernst Krause 16 August 1879
Summary
Regards his part only as material from which CD can select for English edition of Erasmus Darwin.
Regrets dropping comment on Erasmus Darwin’s evolutionary theory.
Asks for translation of British plant names.
Asks CD not to mention in introduction that EK’s part has been reduced.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Aug 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B35–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12194 |
From Ernst Krause 1 September 1879
Summary
Acquaintances say principal contents of Seward book should be recounted in German edition of Erasmus Darwin.
Will CD check MS for errors?
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Sept 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B37–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12208 |
From Ernst Krause 12 September 1879
Summary
Thanks for printed sheets and MS. Intends that German version should follow the English, but will add notes to clarify unfamiliar material for German readers.
Thanks for list of plant names.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Sept 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B39–40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12227 |
From Ernst Krause 2 October 1879
Summary
Has returned corrected sheets [of Erasmus Darwin] to Dallas. [CD’s note forwards this letter to a third person, presumably W. S. Dallas.]
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12243 |
From Ernst Krause 20 October 1879
Summary
Sends corrections. Printing of German edition has not yet begun.
Charles Reinwald wishes to print only CD’s sketch. French hostility to Germans the reason.
Gustav Jäger and Robert Caspary no longer on title-page of Kosmos.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B41–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12264 |
From Ernst Krause 6 November 1879
Summary
Shocked by Karl Alberts’ behaviour in dealing with Murray. Will write to ask him what it means. Thanks for arranging matters with Reinwald.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B46–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12295 |
From Ernst Krause 14 November 1879
Summary
Thanks for English edition [of Erasmus Darwin]. John Murray has not answered letters of German publisher. Questions CD about persons mentioned in book, in order to annotate German edition.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B49–50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12316 |