Sir

I am writing an Essay on the Ex. of the emotions in man & the lower animals.—² Miss Ludwig³ procured for me several of your photographs of young children, which are quite excellent. I write now to know whether you will grant me the favour to allow me to have 2 or 3 copied & engraved on wood for the sake of illustrating my book.— I should of course have printed beneath each, “copied from a photograph by M. A. Kindermann of Hamburgh.”⁴

I sent a message through Miss L that I sh^d be very glad if you could make for me a photograph of an infant, only a month or two old, whilst screaming with the eyes firmly closed, adjusting the focus for the eyes, so as to show the wrinkles round them, & permit me to have it engraved—

Hoping that you will grant me these favours, & be so kind as to send an early answer, I remain, Sir

Your obed servt | Ch. Darwin