To Ernst Krause 9 March 1879
Summary
CD and his brother Erasmus have read EK’s article on Erasmus Darwin. Asks whether EK would object to a translation by W. Dallas, to be offered to Fortnightly Review or to be published at CD’s expense as a book.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 9 Mar 1879 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36175) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11920 |
To Ernst Krause 14 March 1879
Summary
Pleased to hear that EK agrees to CD’s request to have article on Erasmus Darwin translated. Will wait for EK’s enlargement. Has decided submission to Fortnightly Review would be useless.
Warns against Anna Seward’s biography of Dr Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 14 Mar 1879 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36176) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11932 |
To Ernst Krause 19 March 1879
Summary
Sends copy of a lecture [by John Dowson, see 11949] published in 1861.
Has not yet found a copy of Anna Seward’s biography for EK. It is a wretched, inaccurate book. To contradict Anna Seward’s version, CD intends to write a short preface to the translation of EK’s essay. Doubts that it will be worth translating into German.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 19 Mar 1879 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36177) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11944 |
To Ernst Krause 27 March 1879
Summary
CD has written to members of the family for Dr Erasmus Darwin materials and letters. Is apprehensive lest his preface and EK’s essay interfere with one another. Will confine himself to ED’s character and letters;
has begun investigating the influence he had on medical practice.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 27 Mar 1879 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36178) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11958 |
