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From:

Charles Robert Darwin

To:

Thomas Woolner

Date:

10 Mar [1870]

Source of text:

Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. lett. d. 292, fol. 77)

Summary:

Thanks for drawing. ‘The "Woolnerian tip" is worth anything to me.’

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project

From:

Charles Robert Darwin

To:

Archibald Henry Sayce

Date:

28 July 1877

Source of text:

Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. lett. d. 63, fols. 51–2)

Summary:

Thinks "mum" comes from shutting the mouth repeatedly as a sign of wanting to eat.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project