From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 102–3
Summary:
Has received the enlarged MS for Erasmus Darwin from E. Krause.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 104–5
Summary:
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)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 106
Summary:
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?"
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
