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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Comments on EH’s forthcoming [Die Kalkschwämme (1872)].
Thinks EH is working much too hard.
Describes the pointed right ear of his son.
Personal affairs – the move to Marlborough Place.
Mentions publication of Expression.
Asks whether children born blind ever frown, shed tears, or contract orbicular muscles.
Congratulates FCD on his anniversary [as Professor at Utrecht].
Exceptional cases of frowning by children born blind have been reported to CD by R. H. Blair [see 8615]; CD asks WB for information and observations on the use of the muscles around the eye by those blind from birth.
Comments on DHT’s Influence of the mind upon the body [1872].
Comments on Expression.
Ecstatic praise of CD and Expression, which has transformed physiognomy.
Sends his papers on sadness ["Dell’azione del dolore", Gaz. Med. Ital. Lombarda (1866, 1867)]. Sends some observations on physiognomy.
Introduces himself as an acquaintance of E. A. Darwin. Offers miscellaneous observations on human expression.
Thanks CD for copy of Expression.
Agrees to observe expression in children born blind.
Sends story of a dog’s suicide.
Thanks for the letter commending Expression [see 8692]. CD "was not at all sure the work was worth publishing".
Acknowledges receipt of some pamphlets from PM, which his wife will translate.
Regretfully must refuse PM’s offer to translate Expression since it has been promised to another.
Has now received PM’s Physiology of pleasure [Fisiologia del piacere (1870)].
F. M. Balfour wants to experiment on Pangenesis. Asks FG to recommend coloured rabbits that breed true.
Has read CD’s latest book and will make observations for CD.
Reports on a monkey that throws things when "angry".
Explains how natives count to more than four; CD incorrect on this point.
Sends photographs of blacks.
Cicadas out in force.