To C.-F. Reinwald   11 September 1879

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

Sep 11. 79

Dear Sir,

I have dispatched this morning all the remaining sheets of the little life of Dr Darwin. Dr Krause intends in the German edition to add a good many pages from Miss Sewards ‘Life’; and these have not appeared to me worth publishing in England,1 but if you bring out a french translation they would be worth Monsieur Barbier’s consideration2

Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

LS

1
See letter to C.-F. Reinwald, 2 September [1879] and n. 2. In preparing Erasmus Darwin, CD decided to exclude parts of Ernst Krause’s text that repeated material from previously published English sources, such as Anna Seward’s Memoirs of the life of Dr. Darwin (Seward 1804); Krause wished to retain this material for the German edition (see letter from Ernst Krause, 1 September 1879).
2
Edmond Barbier had translated some of CD’s works into French.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12225,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12225