skip to content

Darwin Correspondence Project

To F. G. Stokes   16 July [1878]

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

July 16th.

Dear Sir

Through reflexion & by reading what little has been written on subject, I do not doubt but that you will find interesting points to observe.—1 I can think of only one point, & the possibility of attending to this will depend on your possessing an accurate musical ear, namely the various intonations, which young children utter, before they can speak, & just after they have learned to do so.— Many of their sounds in different notes are highly expressive.

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

Stokes’s letter to CD has not been found.

Summary

Discusses "highly expressive" speech of young children.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-11610
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Francis Griffin Stokes
Sent from
Down
Postmark
JY 16 | 78
Source of text
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.541)
Physical description
ALS 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11610,” accessed on 1 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11610.xml

letter