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
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 178: 84
Summary:
Asks if CD would like to subscribe to a reprint of Edward Blyth’s Field articles on cranes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B19–20
Summary:
Thanks for sketch of Erasmus Darwin by John Dowson [see Erasmus Darwin, p. iv]; would like to incorporate this information into MS. Previous biographers of Erasmus Darwin had insufficient knowledge of what appeared in his works.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Léo Abram Errera
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 163: 29
Summary:
Sends his photograph as requested.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Sophia Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 15
Summary:
Notes and a copy of a letter written by ESG to John Dowson of Whitby. Expresses her opinion of the biographies of Erasmus Darwin written by Mrs Schimmelpenninck and Anna Seward.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick King
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 169: 20
Summary:
Cattle and sheep varieties removed from their native soils degenerate rapidly.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 16
Summary:
Regrets she has none of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s letters. Relates some anecdotes concerning her grandfather.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 136–7
Summary:
They have never had any Erasmus Darwin letters.
Sends photographs [of Elston Hall].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 17
Summary:
Sends a book by her uncle, Charles Darwin [1758–78], and recounts some details of the life of her grandfather, Dr Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Reginald Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 146–9
Summary:
Sends Dr Erasmus Darwin’s commonplace book, some letters, and poems.
Family news.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B21
Summary:
Wants to finish revision of MS on Erasmus Darwin before Dallas begins translation. Has discussed possible German edition with Carl Alberts.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 390
Summary:
Has succeeded in obtaining Assistant Keeper’s post.
Believes it would be interesting and valuable to study the variation in organs such as scent-fans and "strigillating" [stridulating?] organs among related species of Lepidoptera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Sophia Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 181–2
Summary:
Sends drawings of several of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s residences, together with suggestions of sources of other material.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
