To James Crichton-Browne   26 March [1871]1

Down,

March 26,

My dear Sir

I have just despatched one of your photographs of insane woman with wonderfully bristling hair to be engraved.2 I cannot remember whether I stated that I should like to have some engraved.3 I suppose there can be no objection. I see in newspapers that photographers sometimes prosecute people for taking their photographs. If I do not hear, I will assume I may have the photograph engraved. I shall be anxious to see the other photographs which you said you would lend me for inspection4 I have been making immense use almost every day of your MS.5 The book ought to be called by Darwin & Browne?6

Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin.

Do not, I beg you, if well enough, forget to tell me sometime about the pupils of eyes under rage and terror.7

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1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letters to James Crichton-Browne, 20 February [1871] and 7 April [1871] (see nn. 2 and 7, below).
2
For the photographs, see Correspondence vol. 17, second enclosure to the letter from Henry Maudsley, 20 May 1869, and Correspondence vol. 18, letter from James Crichton-Browne, 6 June 1870, enclosure and n. 3. An engraving of the photograph sent as an enclosure to the letter from James Crichton-Browne, 6 June 1870, and now in DAR 53.1: 68, was reproduced in Expression, p. 296. See also letter to James Crichton-Browne, 7 April [1871].
4
CD had requested photographs in his letters to James Crichton-Browne, 8 February 1871, and 20 February [1871]; Crichton-Browne had offered to send some in his letters of 16 February 1871 and 19 February 1871.
5
CD probably refers to the enclosure to the letter from James Crichton-Browne, 16 February 1871.
6
CD refers to Expression, in which Crichton-Browne is extensively cited.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8253,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8253