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From Henry Maudsley   6 November 1872

9, Hanover Square, W.

November 6th. 1872

My dear Sir—

I have to thank you most sincerely for kindly sending me your just published work, which I have read with very great pleasure and profit.1 To me the facts, and arguments brought forward open up quite new regions for reflection, and I shall certainly owe a very large intellectual obligation to the book—

I have ventured to send you by post a copy of a Journal containing an address which I had occasion to deliver at a medical meeting. It is extremely sketchy, but as it touches briefly on a question which I had the pleasure of speaking with you upon, I thought you might not be unwilling to glance through it—2

Believe me, | With greatest esteem, | Yours faithfully | H Maudsley

1
Maudsley’s name appears on CD’s presentation list for Expression (see Correspondence vol. 20, Appendix V).
2
Maudsley’s address on medical psychology, delivered at the opening of the psychological section at the annual meeting of the British Medical Association, was printed in the British Medical Journal, 10 August 1871, pp. 163–7. Maudsley reprinted it under the title ‘Conscience and organisation’ in the second edition of his Body and mind (Maudsley 1873). In this paper, Maudsley argued that the moral sense (or its lack) were inherited, and that it was not to be exempted from physiological research on the brain and mind. Maudsley visited Down on 17 April 1872 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8603,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8603