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DCP-LETT-8610

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 133–4
Summary:

Writes, as a P.S. to his previous letter, stating his friends have advised him not to answer Owen’s attack.

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DCP-LETT-8615

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.

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DCP-LETT-8614

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 239–42
Summary:

Pros and cons of answering Owen’s letter.

On Artizans’ Dwellings, he approves the object but it is lost money as an investment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8616

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8617

From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 162: 150
Summary:

Going on circumnavigation voyage aboard the Garibaldi.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8621

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 297
Summary:

Praise for Expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8622

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 430
Summary:

Price of Expression is 12s.

Sends cheque to pay CD his share of profits on Origin [6th ed.].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8624

From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 162: 211
Summary:

Is amazed at Expression. Like CD’s former works, it contains the material and principles of a new science.

The Zoological Station is making good progress – now has a fine building. Hopes for a stable income from contributions of various governments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8625

From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 253
Summary:

Many thanks for Expression. AG relates some relevant observations, the significance of which had previously escaped him.

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DCP-LETT-8626

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 105: A50–A51, A69–A70
Summary:

Agrees the rabbit experiment has gone on long enough, but would like one more litter.

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DCP-LETT-8685

From:
Jules Michelet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 174
Summary:

Darwin and his followers have connected France and England like the projected tunnel and have demonstrated that the French and English are more free than Germany from scholasticism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8627

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 106: B115–16
Summary:

Appreciation [of Expression]. ARW will review it in Quarterly Journal of Science [n.s. 3 (1873): 113–18].

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DCP-LETT-8630

From:
Henry MacKay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 4
Summary:

Has just read Origin and Descent and wants to know: 1. Has man a soul? 2. Is man morally responsible "to his creative cause or force"? 3. Is there any form of after-life?

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8629

From:
Adèle-Athénaïs Mialaret (Athénaïs) Michelet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 172
Summary:

The Michelets are ill and dispirited.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8631

From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 231
Summary:

Thanks CD for Expression. Disagrees with his views on the genesis of melody; HS gives some reasons for believing it to originate in the natural cadences of emotional speech.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8632

From:
William Duppa Crotch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 88: 116a–b
Summary:

Horns of female reindeer disappear after their calves are dropped [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 503].

Lemmings in Norway.

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DCP-LETT-8633

From:
Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 29
Summary:

Agrees to translate Expression into Italian.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1530

From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[18 November 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1265
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-1536

From:
Myers, A. T.
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[18 November 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1745
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-1539

From:
Wedgwood, L. C.
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[18 November 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1979
Summary:

No summary available.

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