From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B55
Summary:
Birthday greetings.
Regrets Butler’s malicious attack.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
13 Feb 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36202)
Summary:
Thanks EK for kind letter.
CD’s date on epitaph is a dreadful mistake. CD often overlooks errata.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B56
Summary:
Agrees not to reply to Butler.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B57
Summary:
German edition of Erasmus Darwin delayed because Murray has not sent phototypes and galvanographs.
Two of CD’s articles from Nature to appear in April Kosmos ["Sexual colours in butterflies", Collected papers 2: 220–2, Kosmos 7 (1880): 72–4;
"Fertility of hybrids from the Chinese goose", Collected papers 2: 219–20, Kosmos 7 (1880): 77–8].
Moritz Wagner will begin a series criticising natural selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
23 Mar 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36204)
Summary:
Regrets delay of photographs [for German edition of Erasmus Darwin].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B58r
Summary:
Sends German edition of Erasmus Darwin.
[CD’s notes form part of a draft for 12586.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
21 Apr 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36205)
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 July 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B59
Summary:
No significant reviews of Erasmus Darwin have appeared yet in Germany.
Sends response from a theological opponent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
29 July 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36206)
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".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
30 July 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36207); DAR 210.11: 18
Summary:
Profit on Erasmus Darwin is £9 15s 5d. Sends cheque. 218 copies remain unsold.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 169: 108
Summary:
Responds to CD’s offer to pay for subscription to Kosmos.
Comments on his own honorarium for English edition of Erasmus Darwin. Success of German edition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 169: 109
Summary:
Has sent 2d ed. of his book, Werden und Vergehen [1880]. Notes that book was attacked in Prussian House of Deputies by ultramontane critics of Hermann Müller who had recommended it to his pupils.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
7 Oct 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36208)
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 169: 110
Summary:
Thanks CD for copy of Movement in plants. It will be reviewed in Kosmos [8 (1880–1): 258–71] by Hermann Müller.
Kosmos will probably cease publication. Publisher has decided to sell.
Fritz Müller has suffered from flood.
Müller’s latest letter contains a polemic against Wagner’s migration theory,
and some interesting observations on Crustacea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
28 Nov 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36209)
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 169: 111
Summary:
Comments on Pangenesis. Quotes long passage from article by Fritz Müller concerning regeneration of lost members among crustaceans.
Kosmos has been sold to Eduard Koch in Stuttgart; will be converted into a weekly. Science will be de-emphasised. Krause seeking new publisher to continue on old basis.
Gustav Jäger injured in train accident.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B60
Summary:
Would like to reply to Samuel Butler’s Unconscious memory [1880] in Kosmos.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
[12 Dec 1880]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36203)
Summary:
CD is pleased that EK will answer Butler. Thinks Butler is half insane.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
26 Dec 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36210)
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 92: B61; DAR 221.2: 27
Summary:
Encloses reply to Butler [Kosmos 8 (1881): 321–2]. Has also written a reply intended for English reader. Will have it translated for Popular Science Review if CD thinks suitable.
Report of Jäger accident was an error.
Kosmos has been purchased by Eduard Koch in Stuttgart and will continue as in the past.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
