From:
Maria Isabella Snow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 [Nov 1872 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 213
Summary:
Describes her experiences of blushing on her hands.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Nov 1872]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 51)
Summary:
Is delighted to receive expression. Some comments on swallowing and scratching. Asks to be sent reviews.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ludwig Heinrich Jeitteles
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 184: 7
Summary:
Sends CD a copy of the second part of his paper on the remains and antiquities of Olmütz in Moravia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 85
Summary:
Thanks for copy of Expression.
Reminiscences of their youth.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Smith Craig
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 96: 112
Summary:
A number of students wish to nominate CD as Lord Rector of the University of Aberdeen and JSC inquires whether CD’s state of health would prevent his standing as a candidate.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 83
Summary:
Asks CD’s opinion of John Denny’s idea that males have prepotent transmission power in plants. A. J. F. Wegmann says the females are prepotent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Auguste Benjamin Hippolyte (Auguste) Houzeau de Lehaie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 166: 274
Summary:
Has received Expression and will forward it to his brother [Jean-Charles Houzeau de Lehaie].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 65
Summary:
Observations on expression: women gnash teeth when sexually excited. W. Africans do not kiss.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 428
Summary:
Is convinced that 2000 more copies [of Expression] must be printed without delay in order to meet demand. He therefore asks CD to send his corrections to the printer at once.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Maudsley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 94
Summary:
Thanks for Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 254
Summary:
Has finished reading Descent and sends some comments [missing].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 105: A67–8
Summary:
Sends thanks for Expression; offers some additions, and will send printed queries abroad if CD wishes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 130–2
Summary:
Has been asked to take shares in the Artizans’ Dwellings Co., in which CD is a shareholder. If it is really a project for public good, he would be glad to be associated.
Owen has answered his letter in Nature [7 (1872): 5–7].
A letter from Tyndall [from America] was read at the X Club.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 133–4
Summary:
Writes, as a P.S. to his previous letter, stating his friends have advised him not to answer Owen’s attack.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 86
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s photograph, which recalls the Charles Darwin of olden days.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Hugh Blair
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 160: 197
Summary:
Thanks for copy [of Expression].
Has now read Charles Bell’s book [Anatomy and philosophy of expression, 3d ed. (1844)].
Reports instance of person, blind from birth, frowning, when supposedly the blind cannot control the muscle required.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 429
Summary:
The reception of Expression has exceeded even JM’s expectations; 5267 copies were sold at the annual sale. CD’s modesty about the work had misled him about its probable sale.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 162: 150
Summary:
Going on circumnavigation voyage aboard the Garibaldi.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 297
Summary:
Praise for Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 430
Summary:
Price of Expression is 12s.
Sends cheque to pay CD his share of profits on Origin [6th ed.].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project