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To Ernst Krause   5 January 1880

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Jan 5./80

My dear Sir,

There have been a good many reviews of the Life, & all without exception favourable. Some chiefly about your part, some about mine & some equally about both parts.1 I enclose one rather good review. The others, excepting the Pall Mall which was sent you, did not seem to me worth sending. I assume that you saw the review in the Times which was chiefly about your part. There is an article in the Journal of Science just published which I have not yet read.2 I am surprised that a new edition has not been called for. I hope the German edition will soon appear.3

My dear Sir, | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

LS(A)

1
Erasmus Darwin contained a lengthy biographical notice by CD and an essay by Krause on Erasmus Darwin’s scientific work.
2
The enclosure was a review of Erasmus Darwin from Popular Science Review n.s. 4 (1880): 69–71 (see letter from Ernst Krause, 16 January 1880). Reviews of Erasmus Darwin were published in the Pall Mall Gazette, 12 December 1879, p. 12, and The Times, 22 November 1879, p. 6; an article-length review, ‘The history of evolutionism’, was published in the January 1880 issue of Journal of Science, pp. 1–8. Other reviews appeared in the Academy, 6 December 1879, p. 411, the Athenæum, 6 December 1879, pp. 723–4, and the Derby Mercury, 3 December 1879, p. 6. See Correspondence vol. 27, Appendix V.
3
Erasmus Darwin 2d ed. was published in 1887. The German edition was Krause 1880.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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