From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1867–72]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 53
Summary:
On origin of hand-shaking.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
On origin of hand-shaking.
Expression: derivation of the term "brown study".
A fragment that may contain information for Expression.
Sends extract from Charma [Essai sur le langage (1846)] on the origin of nodding and shaking the head [See Expression, p. 273 n. 17].
An extract from Macrobius’ Saturnalia dealing with blushing.
Extract from Seneca’s letters establishes that hiding the face in shame was not a classical gesture.
Has marked a page from Adam Bede which may be relevant to CD’s work on expression.