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To Francis Darwin   [2 June 1879 or earlier]1

Try & find out something about Dr. Ernst Krause— what sort of man?— What has he written under the pseudonym of Carus Sterne? Is he well-known in Germany?—2

1
The date is established by the relationship between this note and the letter from Francis Darwin, [after 2 June 1879].
2
CD was working on a biographical sketch to introduce an English translation of Ernst Krause’s essay on Erasmus Darwin (Krause 1879a). Most of Krause’s longer publications were published under the pseudonym Carus Sterne.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12076,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12076