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From W. S. Dallas   15 March 1879

Geological Society, | Burlington House, W.

15 March 1879

My dear Sir

My letter of yesterday will be a sufficient answer to your inquiry whether I will translate M. Krause’s biography of Erasmus Darwin,— I shall be very happy to do so, & in fact it will suit me better to have it later than at present.—1 I sent the Kosmos by book post.—2

Believe me | Yours very truly | W. S. Dallas

C. Darwin Esq

1
See letter from W. S. Dallas, 14 March 1879. CD had evidently written to warn Dallas that the translation would be delayed by Ernst Krause’s work on the original text; his letter has not been found. Krause’s ‘Erasmus Darwin’ was published in Kosmos in February 1879 (Krause 1879a).
2
CD had sent Dallas his copy of the issue of Kosmos including Krause 1879a.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11937,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11937