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JHC1547

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
23 December 1872
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.27, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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WCP3694

From:
John Thomas Cockerell
To:
Alfred Russel? Wallace?
Date:
24 December 1872
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46442 f. 93(v)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8694

From:
Moncure Daniel Conway
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Dec 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 219
Summary:

Introduces himself as an acquaintance of E. A. Darwin. Offers miscellaneous observations on human expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8695

From:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Dec 1872
Source of text:
DAR 162: 234
Summary:

Thanks CD for copy of Expression.

Agrees to observe expression in children born blind.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1205

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
24 December 1872
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.199-201, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-8696

From:
Frances Power Cobbe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Dec [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 189
Summary:

Sends story of a dog’s suicide.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8696A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Paolo Mantegazza
Date:
28 Dec 1872
Source of text:
University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (MSS gen 30.066)
Summary:

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)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8697

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
30 Dec [1872]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/13)
Summary:

F. M. Balfour wants to experiment on Pangenesis. Asks FG to recommend coloured rabbits that breed true.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8698

From:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Dec 1872
Source of text:
DAR 169: 117
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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