From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
5 Jan 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36198)
Summary:
The reviews of Erasmus Darwin are mainly favourable.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B51
Summary:
Pleased by favourable English newspaper reviews of Erasmus Darwin. Charles Reinwald has not yet said whether he wants to use annotations intended for German readers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B52
Summary:
What are functions of "yeomen of the armoury" on p. 1? Who is "old Hooker" on p. 34? Needs to explain them in annotations [to Erasmus Darwin].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
19 Jan 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36199)
Summary:
Replies to EK’s queries about German translation of CD’s preface to Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
4 Feb 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36200)
Summary:
Samuel Butler’s fierce attack on CD and EK in Athenæum. CD’s sentence saying that EK had altered his Kosmos article was accidentally omitted from second proofs. Butler insinuates that EK’s attack on his book was suggested by CD or interpolated by him in EK’s text.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B53
Summary:
Thinks CD has no need to reply to Samuel Butler’s hostile article [in the Athenæum]. Offers to reply himself.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B54
Summary:
Returns [Butler’s] attack, which he forgot to send yesterday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
9 Feb 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36201)
Summary:
CD advises EK on his proposed letter answering Butler.
Considering the favourable reviews, sale of Erasmus Darwin has been poor.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B55
Summary:
Birthday greetings.
Regrets Butler’s malicious attack.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
13 Feb 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36202)
Summary:
Thanks EK for kind letter.
CD’s date on epitaph is a dreadful mistake. CD often overlooks errata.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B56
Summary:
Agrees not to reply to Butler.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B57
Summary:
German edition of Erasmus Darwin delayed because Murray has not sent phototypes and galvanographs.
Two of CD’s articles from Nature to appear in April Kosmos ["Sexual colours in butterflies", Collected papers 2: 220–2, Kosmos 7 (1880): 72–4;
"Fertility of hybrids from the Chinese goose", Collected papers 2: 219–20, Kosmos 7 (1880): 77–8].
Moritz Wagner will begin a series criticising natural selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
23 Mar 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36204)
Summary:
Regrets delay of photographs [for German edition of Erasmus Darwin].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B58r
Summary:
Sends German edition of Erasmus Darwin.
[CD’s notes form part of a draft for 12586.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
21 Apr 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36205)
Summary:
Glad to receive the German edition of Erasmus Darwin. Hopes sales will be good. Favourable review has appeared in the United States, in the Nation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 July 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B59
Summary:
No significant reviews of Erasmus Darwin have appeared yet in Germany.
Sends response from a theological opponent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
29 July 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36206)
Summary:
Thanks EK for two articles about Erasmus Darwin.
Does not think it right that he should receive Kosmos free. Asks for a bill for subscription.
Has not heard from J. Murray if there is any profit on Erasmus Darwin, but "vehementer dubito".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
30 July 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36207); DAR 210.11: 18
Summary:
Profit on Erasmus Darwin is £9 15s 5d. Sends cheque. 218 copies remain unsold.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 169: 108
Summary:
Responds to CD’s offer to pay for subscription to Kosmos.
Comments on his own honorarium for English edition of Erasmus Darwin. Success of German edition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 169: 109
Summary:
Has sent 2d ed. of his book, Werden und Vergehen [1880]. Notes that book was attacked in Prussian House of Deputies by ultramontane critics of Hermann Müller who had recommended it to his pupils.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project