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DCP-LETT-11927

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Sweetland Dallas
Date:
12 Mar [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 39
Summary:

Asks whether WSD would be interested in translating Ernst Krause’s article on Erasmus Darwin [Kosmos 4 (1879): 397–424] into English.

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FL-0498

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[12 March 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 130
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-11926

From:
Alexander Dick-Cunyngham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 161: 279
Summary:

Report of wild ass crossed with tame one in India.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11925

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B15–16
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.

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DCP-LETT-11927A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert McLachlan
Date:
12 Mar [1879]
Source of text:
Superior Galleries (dealers) (28–31 January 1990)
Summary:

Asks RMcL to correct the proper names in enclosed proof of a letter from Fritz Müller to be published in Nature. CD has no book with names of Trichoptera. [See 11930.]

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DCP-LETT-11931

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Mar [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 92: B1
Summary:

Sends suggestions for CD’s preface to Erasmus Darwin.

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DCP-LETT-11928

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Léo Abram Errera
Date:
13 Mar 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.562)
Summary:

Comments on book by LAE and Gustave Gevaert [see 11916].

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FVM-79-03-13a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Redmond Barry
Date:
13 March 1879
Source of text:
VPRS 5831/PO/8, correspondence inward — miscellaneous letters, pp. 56-7, VA 912 Trustees of the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria 1869-1944, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11938

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 104: 125–7
Summary:

Urges Frank to reconsider his refusal of Cambridge Examinership.

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DCP-LETT-11930

From:
Robert McLachlan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 2
Summary:

Returns to CD a corrected proof [of "Fritz Müller on a frog having eggs on its back", Nature 19 (1878–9): 462–4].

Discusses adaptations of the pupae of, and Fritz Müller’s work on, Trichoptera.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11929

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
13 Mar 1879
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 165)
Summary:

Thanks for seeds and for kindness to Frank Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11935

From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 99–100
Summary:

Offers to translate [E. Krause’s] "Erasmus Darwin" for £10.

Thanks CD for signing his certificate for the Royal Society.

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DCP-LETT-11932

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
14 Mar 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36176)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11934

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Ward Richardson
Date:
14 Mar 1879
Source of text:
Royal College of Physicians of London (ALS/D10)
Summary:

Remembers that BWR had planned to write a life of Erasmus Darwin. Ernst Krause now intends to enlarge his Erasmus Darwin; would welcome any information or material.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11937

From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 101
Summary:

Repeats his willingness to translate E. Krause’s "Erasmus Darwin".

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FL-1211

From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
15 March 1879
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1411
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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FL-0581

From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
15 March 1879
Source of text:
DAR 219.4: 3
Summary:

No summary available.

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DCP-LETT-11939

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 Mar [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 481–2
Summary:

Frank’s reasons for not accepting the Cambridge Examinership.

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FL-0832

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[17 March 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 193
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-11942

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B17–18
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).

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