Suggests references that might answer CD’s [unidentified] request for information about coral islands.
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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Suggests references that might answer CD’s [unidentified] request for information about coral islands.
Offers to translate [E. Krause’s] "Erasmus Darwin" for £10.
Thanks CD for signing his certificate for the Royal Society.
Repeats his willingness to translate E. Krause’s "Erasmus Darwin".
Has received the enlarged MS for Erasmus Darwin from E. Krause.
Has difficulty with E. Krause’s orthography and quotations.
Asks CD to lend him Anna Seward’s biography [Memoirs of the life of Dr Darwin (1804)].
Has CD seen Samuel Butler’s Evolution, old and new [1879], which contains a biography of Erasmus Darwin and exposition of his philosophy? "Does not this rather take the wind out of our sails?"
Has finished the first part of Krause’s MS [of Erasmus Darwin]. Expects to receive the concluding portion soon.
Has just received concluding portion of Krause’s MS.
Thanks CD for sending volumes of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s works. Hopes to finish Krause’s MS in a fortnight.
Difficulties with Krause’s handwriting and the time required to correct his sources have delayed the translation [of Erasmus Darwin].
Last minute checking of some quotations has delayed his translation [of Erasmus Darwin].
WSD sent MS of his translation of Erasmus Darwin on 6 August. Hopes CD received all of it.
He has no cause to complain at CD’s suppression of parts of his translation. Will do his best to correct and improve the proofs.
Acknowledges proofs of Erasmus Darwin.
Sends his corrected proofs [of Erasmus Darwin] for CD’s approval, with questions and final arrangements.
Final decisions about the printing of Erasmus Darwin.
E. Krause has sent his corrected proofs with suggestions and questions.
Suggests £20 as a fair payment for his work on Erasmus Darwin.
Thanks CD for a copy of Erasmus Darwin.
Asks CD to allow his name to be put on a committee to establish a Scientific Societies Club for the fellows of the six societies that will have rooms in Burlington House.