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DCP-LETT-6520

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell
Date:
[before 10 Apr 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 85: A99
Summary:

CD asks whether New Zealand tribes have an idea of beauty in women which is "like ours"; WBDM answers, "Yes".

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DCP-LETT-1663

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell
Date:
10 Apr [1856]
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, MS-Papers-0083-268)
Summary:

Thanks WBDM for his reply [missing] to CD’s previous letter [1603].

Asks for more details on the erratic blocks.

Asks also if there is good evidence that there formerly existed [in New Zealand] some animal with hair, like an otter or beaver.

Finally, do the uncivilised natives have the same ideal of [human] beauty as Europeans?

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