From Samuel Butler to Francis Darwin [before 30 May 1872]1
15. Clifford’s Inn | Fleet Street
Dear Darwin
My young friend May has brought me these this morning: he tells me to say that they are entirely at Mr Darwin’s disposal, and that he shall be delighted in case he finds them in any way useful.2 I don’t think the lower one satisfies him, but I should think that a suggestion would be attended to: he said he found it so far more difficult to get a dog into the fighting attitude than the fawning one, that he had less chance of studying.
I send the drawings to you rather than to your father because it is no use troubling him at all unless you think them likely to please him. Would you like to meet the youth? he seems to me to shape uncommonly well.
Your’s very truly | S. Butler.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
Summary
Sends drawings of dogs in different attitudes, drawn by his friend A. May. FD should not trouble CD unless he thinks the drawings will please him. [See Expression, pp. 54–5.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8305
- From
- Samuel Butler
- To
- Francis Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Clifford’s Inn, 15
- Source of text
- DAR 106: A6–7
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8305,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8305.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
