To Karl Alberts   8 October 1879

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Oct 8. 1879

Dear Sir,

Mr Murray has forwarded to me your card, as he does not read German. He will supply cliches of the two wood-cuts at a trifling cost. With respect to the phototype I believe that I sent a copy to Dr Krause; any how I have not one left, but could of course procure one1   I much doubt whether it would be possible to make a good copy from a photograph, the price per 1,000 copies of those in the english edition will be £7; for a large size either £7–17s–6d or 8£–2s–6d per 1,000. If you dertermine to have copies printed in England you had better send me the exact size of your page & then Mr Murray could give the order

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Karl Alberts was the director of Ernst Günther, the firm publishing the German version of Erasmus Darwin; the English version was published by John Murray. Erasmus Darwin contained two woodcuts (of Elston Hall, p. 3, and Breadsall Priory, p. 125), and a photograph of a painting of Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802) by Joseph Wright as a frontispiece.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12251F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12251F