To Thomas Woolner 10 March [1870]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E. [6 Queen Anne Street]
March 10th
My dear Mr Woolner
Very many thanks for the drawing: it does excellently.—2 The “Woolnerian tip” is worth anything to me.—3
Yours very sincerely | Ch Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and a note in DAR 80: B113 dated ‘March 7 (70)’: ‘W. has seen the tips in women & men. When he was making his figure of Puck he went to Z garden and made drawings of ears of monkeys & shortly afterwards he saw a man with tip & instantly recognized their signification’.
Woolner’s drawing of a human ear showing the unusual feature of a pointed tip (‘Woolner’s tip’) on the outer ear projecting from the inwardly folded margin is in DAR 80: B120.
Bibliography
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
Summary
Thanks for drawing. ‘The "Woolnerian tip" is worth anything to me.’
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6650
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Woolner
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. lett. d. 292, fol. 77)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6650,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6650.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18
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