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To Edward Wilson   20 February [1868]1

Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.

Feb 20

Dear Mr Wilson

Many thanks for yr note.2 I recd a letter the other day from Dr Müller on the same subject, & from his kindness & yours, I shall receive more answer from Australia than from any other quarter of the world.3 This is a great piece of good fortune, as the Australians are I suppose nearly the most distinct of all races. This reminds me to ask you whether you happen to possess any moderately large photographs of Australians; In this case if you wd lend them to me for a day or 2 I wd send for them. I have a considerable collection, but it contains no Australian & I should like to compare them.4

Pray believe me | yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

LS

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Edward Wilson, 19 February 1868.
3
CD had enclosed a copy of his queries on expression with a letter to Ferdinand von Mueller, 28 February [1867] (Correspondence vol. 15; see also letter from Samuel Wilson to Ferdinand von Mueller, 12 November 1867). Mueller’s letter to CD has not been found.
4
CD’s surviving collection of photographs on expression is in the Darwin Archive and Darwin Library–CUL (DAR 53.1). It includes a set of prints of non-European peoples from the Museum de Paris.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-5899,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-5899