From:
Andrew Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 172
Summary:
Sends his congratulations and best wishes on CD’s marriage.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Andrew Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Nov? 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 184
Summary:
AS has been seriously ill with rheumatic fever.
Is studying the natives of South Africa to see whether he can trace any connection between them and the populations of North Africa.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Andrew Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 85: A103–5
Summary:
On Hottentot ideas of beauty in women; their preference for women with large posteriors. [See Descent 2: 345–6.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Andrew Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 185
Summary:
Admires CD’s ability to work so hard under adverse circumstances; finds his health makes all work an effort.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Andrew Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 109–10
Summary:
On Hottentots’ blushing.
Gives case of a baboon’s revenge. [See Descent, 2d ed. (1874), p. 69.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Andrew Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 179–80
Summary:
Disagrees with CD and especially with Lubbock and McLennan about communal marriage. [See Descent 2: 361–3.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Andrew Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 186
Summary:
Thanks CD for a letter to Galton which enabled him to get information on the inhabitants of a part of South Africa. Is trying to work up the ethnology of South Africa, but fears he will become disheartened.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project