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From W. S. Dallas   8 May 1879

Geological Society, | Burlington House, W.

8 May 1879

My dear Sir

Dr. Krauss in his letter to me says he is unaccustomed to what he calls “das Englischschreiben” & asks me to look to the orthography of his English quotations.—1 On looking a little further into his MS. last night, after sending off my letter to you, I found that it is not only the orthography that is defective, but that he every now & then omits important words.— The principal work quoted from, I think, is Miss Seward’s life of Dr. Darwin,— have you a copy of this? & could you oblige me with the loan of it for the time while this translation is in progress—2 I don’t know where I can get it, or I would not trouble you.

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

C. Darwin Esq.

1
Das Englischschreiben: English writing (German); Ernst Krause meant the standard script of the English language, commonly known as Latin script.
2
Dallas was translating Krause’s revised version of his work on Erasmus Darwin, CD’s grandfather (Krause 1879a), for publication as part of Erasmus Darwin. CD’s copy of Anna Seward’s memoir of Erasmus Darwin (Seward 1804) is in the Darwin Library–Down.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12039,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12039