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From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Mar 1877
Source of text:
DAR 169: 105
Summary:

As editor of the new journal, Kosmos, thanks CD for the permission he has granted Ernst Haeckel to publish with CD’s approval.

Cites his long support for evolution as exemplified by his book [Die botanische Systematik in ihrem Verhältniss zur Morphologie (1866)].

CD has many German supporters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
25 Mar 1877
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36172)
Summary:

Thanks for EK’s book [Werden und Vergehen (1876)].

Regrets he cannot write for EK’s journal, but his son, Francis, may do so.

Suggests EK as editor urge on readers [of Kosmos] the investigation of the causes of variability; why, for instance, do wild Pampas cattle change colour when domesticated? Thinks experiments and observations on recently domesticated animals and cultivated plants would throw light on the subject.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
30 June 1877
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36173)
Summary:

CD interested in EK’s argument against belief that sense of colour has been recently acquired by man. Describes his observations of the difficulty his own children had in distinguishing, or naming, colours.

Adds that it appeared to him the gustatory sense of his children, when young, differed from that of grown-up persons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 169: 106
Summary:

Asks permission to print translation of "A biographical sketch of an infant" [Collected papers 2: 191–200] in Kosmos.

Notes divisions among German Darwinists.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
11 July [1877]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36174)
Summary:

EK may publish a translation [of "Sketch of an infant"] if he wishes, but CD hardly thinks it deserves the honour.

Glad to hear that Kosmos succeeds fairly well; has found several articles interesting.

Contributor:
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From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 169: 107
Summary:

Thanks CD for permission to print ["Sketch of an infant"] in Kosmos.

Discusses children’s ability to distinguish colours.

Describes disagreements among German supporters of CD. Discusses reaction of German protestants to Darwinism.

Contributor:
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From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B14
Summary:

Birthday greetings.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library (John Robert Crouse autograph collection)
Summary:

Thanks for honour of latest number of Kosmos.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
9 Mar 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36175)
Summary:

CD and his brother Erasmus have read EK’s article on Erasmus Darwin. Asks whether EK would object to a translation by W. Dallas, to be offered to Fortnightly Review or to be published at CD’s expense as a book.

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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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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
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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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
19 Mar 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36177)
Summary:

Sends copy of a lecture [by John Dowson, see 11949] published in 1861.

Has not yet found a copy of Anna Seward’s biography for EK. It is a wretched, inaccurate book. To contradict Anna Seward’s version, CD intends to write a short preface to the translation of EK’s essay. Doubts that it will be worth translating into German.

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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.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
27 Mar 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36178)
Summary:

CD has written to members of the family for Dr Erasmus Darwin materials and letters. Is apprehensive lest his preface and EK’s essay interfere with one another. Will confine himself to ED’s character and letters;

has begun investigating the influence he had on medical practice.

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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.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
2 Apr 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36179)
Summary:

CD agrees entirely with EK’s proposal. Has collected a good deal of material. Useless to hunt for correspondence between Dr Darwin and Samuel Johnson. They met only once and hated one another. Dr Darwin is said to have taken Henry Brooke, who published a poem entitled "Universal beauty", as a model.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
2 May 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36181)
Summary:

CD is leaving home for three weeks’ rest. If EK finishes his life of Dr Darwin while CD is away, asks him to send the MS to W. S. Dallas for translation. CD will begin his preface, but needs rest and will not do much until he returns.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
5 [May] 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36180)
Summary:

Thinks it better to send proofs of his preface [to Erasmus Darwin] rather than MS – he always corrects proofs heavily. Doubts that it is worth translating into German – it is written for the English public. Supposes EK will not object to a French translation and an American edition of the little book. Has written a dozen pages during a break

in his experimental work [on movement of plants].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B22–3
Summary:

Sends first part of MS of Erasmus Darwin.

Has found useful criticism of Anna Seward in J. G. Lockhart’s Life of Sir Walter Scott.

CD should regard MS as a draft and correct anything that seems incorrect or questionable. Asks biographical questions about Dr Darwin. Can CD give information about origin of family name?

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