From Lucy Caroline Wedgwood [25 April 1870]1
Monday
Dear Uncle Charles
I have at last made out for certain that my dog does raise his lip on the side on which he is attacked, without raising it on the other.
I tried making a horse kick by whipping him behind when riding him several times and always with the same result: he just turned his ears round before kicking but never once laid them flat as before biting.2
The horse when I scratch him stretches out his nose, opens his mouth a little, and with lips parted &
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Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
Summary
Aggressive behaviour of dogs and horses.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7174
- From
- Lucy Caroline Wedgwood/Lucy Caroline Harrison
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 181: 59
- Physical description
- inc †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7174,” accessed on 29 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7174.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18