To James Paget 29 April [1869]1
Down. | Beckenham| Kent. S.E.
Ap. 29th
My dear Paget
I have made a wonderful recovery. Mr Engleheart says all the fluid is gone, only some thickening left.—2 I have no pain, & very slight tenderness, & can walk & do walk several times a day.— I shall soon take to gentle rides again.
As far as sensations serve, I am inclined to think the fomentations acted admirably.
My general health is also improving.— Do not waste your precious time in answering this, but accept my cordial thanks for your kind advice & believe me
My dear Paget | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
P.S. If ever you come across an extra blushing damsel do not forget the downward extent of the blush. I am assured that some half naked natives of Eastern races blush over arms & legs!
Also any case in which when screaming or breathing laboriously if platysma myoides contracts skin of neck into transverse folds?—3
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Has made a wonderful recovery [from riding accident].
Asks for information on blushing and screaming [for Expression].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6716
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- James Paget, 1st baronet
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Autogr. b. 4, fol. 119a)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6716,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6716.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17
