To Miss Fenwick 8 February [1871–82]
Summary
Sends two waste sheets of MS of Descent; Miss F can cut out any portion she likes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Miss Fenwick |
| Date: | 8 Feb [1871-82] |
| Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Hay MSS Ms.44.31) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13806 |
From W. B. Dawkins 8 February 1871
Summary
The box of bones sent by CD has led to a series of explorations. Reports on Yorkshire cave-hunting.
| Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Feb 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 125 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7477 |
To James Crichton-Browne 8 February 1871
Summary
Will send copy of Descent.
Comments on JC-B’s MS on expression among insane. Asks about weeping in insane men. Do idiots laugh when pleased?
Thanks for photographs of insane. Asks for additional photographs.
Comments on Henry Maudsley [Body and mind (1870)].
Pointed ears in the insane.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Date: | 8 Feb 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 333 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7478 |
| letter | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Dawkins, W. B. | (1) |
| Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Fenwick, Miss | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
| Dawkins, W. B. | (1) |
| Fenwick, Miss | (1) |
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
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- … , (London: John Murray, 1st ed., 1871), vol. 1., pp. 207 – 208. 3) “Man is more courageous, …
24 Regent Street, London
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Brotherly contact
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- … News from Darwin's brother Erasmus Alvey Darwin and his sisters when they were staying in London. …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
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- … 21. A similar deletion occurs in Origin 4th ed., p. 208. 22. p. 229. A similar …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
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- … 29 march 1896 Den Haag 208 Wertheim A. A …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
Summary
List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
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- … 208 Wertheim A. A Director of the Amsterdam Royal …
