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To D. H. Tuke   22 December 1872

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Dec 22 1872

Dear Sir

I have now finished yr book & have read it with great interest.1

Many of yr cases are very striking. As I felt sure wd be the case, I have learnt much from it; & I should have modified several passages in my book on expression, if I had had the advantage of reading yr work before my publication. I always felt, & said so a year ago to Professor Donders, that I had not sufficient knowledge of physiology to treat my subject in a proper way.2

With my thanks for the interest which I have felt in reading your work I remain | dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

LS

1
There is an annotated copy of Tuke’s Illustrations of the influence of the mind upon the body (Tuke 1872) in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 809). Several references to Tuke 1872 were added to the second edition of Expression (Expression 2d ed., p. 81 n. 17, p. 252 n. 7, p. 271 n. 12).

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