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From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 162: 28
Summary:

Suggests references that might answer CD’s [unidentified] request for information about coral islands.

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 107–8
Summary:

Has finished the first part of Krause’s MS [of Erasmus Darwin]. Expects to receive the concluding portion soon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 109
Summary:

Has just received concluding portion of Krause’s MS.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 110–11
Summary:

Thanks CD for sending volumes of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s works. Hopes to finish Krause’s MS in a fortnight.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 112–13
Summary:

Difficulties with Krause’s handwriting and the time required to correct his sources have delayed the translation [of Erasmus Darwin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 114–17
Summary:

Last minute checking of some quotations has delayed his translation [of Erasmus Darwin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 118–19
Summary:

WSD sent MS of his translation of Erasmus Darwin on 6 August. Hopes CD received all of it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 120–1
Summary:

He has no cause to complain at CD’s suppression of parts of his translation. Will do his best to correct and improve the proofs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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