From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 122
Summary:
Acknowledges proofs of Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 and 16 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 123–4
Summary:
Sends his corrected proofs [of Erasmus Darwin] for CD’s approval, with questions and final arrangements.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 125–6
Summary:
Final decisions about the printing of Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 127–8
Summary:
E. Krause has sent his corrected proofs with suggestions and questions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 129–30
Summary:
Suggests £20 as a fair payment for his work on Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 131–2
Summary:
Thanks CD for a copy of Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 99: 133–134
Summary:
Since CD has decided not to answer S. Butler’s charge, WSD will not reply either.
Will look over Francis Darwin’s lecture ["Climbing plants"] with a view to publishing it in Popular Science Review [19 (1880): 213–29].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 July 1880
Source of text:
DAR 162: 30
Summary:
The article [Francis Darwin, "Climbing plants"] has appeared in Popular Science Review [n.s. 4 (1880): 213–29].
Asks CD to allow John [Richard de Capel] Wise to dedicate a poem to him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 July 1880
Source of text:
DAR 162: 31
Summary:
John Wise is much pleased by CD’s permitting the dedication of Wise’s poem to him; it will be an ouvrage de luxe, with drawings by Walter Crane [The first of May, a fairy masque; presented in a series of 52 designs by Walter Crane (1881)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 162: 32
Summary:
Asks CD to join in a testimonial supporting James Murie’s candidacy for Librarian of Linnean Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project