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From:
Robert Hugh Blair
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 160: 197
Summary:

Thanks for copy [of Expression].

Has now read Charles Bell’s book [Anatomy and philosophy of expression, 3d ed. (1844)].

Reports instance of person, blind from birth, frowning, when supposedly the blind cannot control the muscle required.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 429
Summary:

The reception of Expression has exceeded even JM’s expectations; 5267 copies were sold at the annual sale. CD’s modesty about the work had misled him about its probable sale.

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Darwin Correspondence Project