Is looking forward to returning home [from Moor Park hydropathic establishment]. News of other patients and the books she is reading. Although feeling well, cannot walk much.
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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.
Is looking forward to returning home [from Moor Park hydropathic establishment]. News of other patients and the books she is reading. Although feeling well, cannot walk much.
Instinct in cats.
A memorandum describing the expressive behaviour of a cat with added notes by CD.
CD wants WED to make some measurements on mid-styled [Primula sinensis] plants.
CD would like to see Rhamnus, as an American species is dimorphic.
Sends red cowslip pollen to be measured.
Discusses some observations on, and the fertilisation of, Ophrys.
Age at which babies first shed tears.
Mogg [John Traherne Moggridge] wants to visit CD.
Self-fertilising orchids.
John Lubbock wants a copy of Origin (4th ed.) for Philip Norman.
An extract from Macrobius’ Saturnalia dealing with blushing.
The expression of shame in ancients, Milton, the Bible, and in poor girls under Miss Gourlay’s charge.
Miss Gourlay reports case of girl at the Lock Hospital who covered her face in shame.
Prefers not to send her proof-slips of the present chapter [of Variation], which has been enormously altered, but will be glad to have her see slips and revises in future.
Describes expression of her baby when crying.
Responds to note about the MS [Descent] with great interest and promises to obey his instructions. [See 7124.]
Responds to her suggested corrections [of Descent].
Describes crying in an infant.
Possible quotations about shame for CD.
Reports on sales and reception of his book [Descent]. Thanks HED for her help.
Wallace’s article in the Academy [2 (1870–1): 177–82] shows CD has had no influence on him; the review has had hardly any influence on CD.
Is delighted at the sale of Descent. What CD says about her help pleases her very much and the proposed gift as a memorial will be very precious to her. Is looking forward to seeing the family in London. Comments on a letter comparing CD's appearance to an ape. Is surprised CD has had no effect on Wallace: 'It seems to me his mind can’t be so clear as u used to think it'. Has worked out why she is dissatisfied with T. H. Huxley's essay ‘On the physical basis of life’ (T. H. Huxley 1869).