From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emily Talbot
Date:
19 July 1881
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection)
Summary:
Interested in investigation of child development. Suggests questions. Does education of parents influence mental power of children? Desirable to test statement that coloured children at first learn as fast as white but afterwards fall behind. Does pitch of chidren’s voices vary with mood? Children’s tastes often related to occupation of progenitor. Do these last?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project