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From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Mar 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 56
Summary:

On the expression of disagreeable surprise.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 41–53
Summary:

On "moral sense" in Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3–9 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 56–9
Summary:

Agrees that social instinct or love for fellows is the beginning of moral feeling. Responds to CD’s letter [7537].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
Date:
3 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 24, 54–5
Summary:

Admits pointer illustration is faulty.

Discusses shame, remorse, social instincts, approbation, and other topics discussed in Descent, ch. 4. "But as yet I nail my colours to the mast."

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
Date:
9 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 64–6
Summary:

Seeks to clarify his and HW’s views on the causes of repentance or shame.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 9 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 60–3
Summary:

Answers CD’s letter [7560], on points of agreement between them, the chief one being the sympathy which man has with his fellows. Disagrees however with CD’s "principle" of the painful feelings of dissatisfied instinct.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 195.1: 54
Summary:

Copy of and note on a picture of Noah’s daughter averting her eyes in shame.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 Aug 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 86: B32
Summary:

Errata in first edition of Insectivorous plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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