To James Crichton-Browne 9 April [1871]1
Down,
April 9,
My dear Sir
I have been led into a small speculation on the confusion of mind often or generally accompanying intense blushing.2 I should not think of publishing this, without some able medical man looking it over. It is only 3 folio pages long, and is well copied out.3 It is founded chiefly on what you have told me, so that I should prefer much to get your opinion on it; but I have long hesitated to send it on account of your avocations and state of health; and please observe that I could easily get Paget, Sir H. Holland, or others to read it over.4 So I earnestly beg you to return the enclosed card with “I have not leisure” or with “yes”5
Yours most sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
Summary
Asks JC-B to read CD’s MS on confusion of mind, which often or generally accompanies blushing.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7672
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- James Crichton-Browne
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 143: 337
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7672,” accessed on 19 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7672.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19