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
Thanks CD for a copy of Erasmus Darwin.
Returns completed questionnaire concerning visualising faculty [see LL 3: 177–9]. Thinks age important. Recalls faces of school friends but cannot remember those of people recently met.
Comments on his part [of Erasmus Darwin].
Thanks for English edition [of Erasmus Darwin]. John Murray has not answered letters of German publisher. Questions CD about persons mentioned in book, in order to annotate German edition.
Returns the memorial, signed, expressing concern about proposed renovations at St Mark’s in Venice.
Thanks for Erasmus Darwin.