From Henryk Stecki 18 March 1874

Letter and/or further information available at https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9366.xml.

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9366,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9366

Summary

Relates the case of a woman from the Caucasus whose hair would frequently stand on end and who later went insane.

Letter details

Record number: DCP-LETT-9366
From: Henryk Stecki
To: Charles Robert Darwin
Date: 18 Mar 1874
Sent from: St Petersburg
Source of text: DAR 53.1: A6–7
Physical description: 3pp (French) †

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22.