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Darwin Correspondence Project

To D. H. Tuke   22 December 1872

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Dec 22 1872

Dear Sir

I have now finished yr book & have read it with great interest.1

Many of yr cases are very striking. As I felt sure wd be the case, I have learnt much from it; & I should have modified several passages in my book on expression, if I had had the advantage of reading yr work before my publication. I always felt, & said so a year ago to Professor Donders, that I had not sufficient knowledge of physiology to treat my subject in a proper way.2

With my thanks for the interest which I have felt in reading your work I remain | dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

Footnotes

There is an annotated copy of Tuke’s Illustrations of the influence of the mind upon the body (Tuke 1872) in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 809). Several references to Tuke 1872 were added to the second edition of Expression (Expression 2d ed., p. 81 n. 17, p. 252 n. 7, p. 271 n. 12).

Bibliography

Expression 2d ed.: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition. Edited by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1890.

Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.

Marginalia: Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of Nicholas W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990.

Tuke, Daniel Hack. 1872. Illustrations of the influence of the mind upon the body in health and disease, designed to elucidate the action of the imagination. London: J. & A. Churchill.

Summary

Comments on DHT’s Influence of the mind upon the body [1872].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-8691
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Daniel Hack Tuke
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Boston College Libraries, John J. Burns Library (Authors Collection (MS 1986–087) Box 4, Folder 32)
Physical description
LS 4pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8691,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8691.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20

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