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 |
From James Crichton-Browne 16 February 1871
Summary
Values CD’s approbation more than that of anyone else now living.
CD’s "searching questions". Sends answers separately.
Offers his observation on morbid pigmentation of skin.
Offers photographs of abnormal features in patients – ears with bristles, women with two sets of nipples.
Encloses notes on weeping and laughter in the insane.
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 312 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7484 |
From James Crichton-Browne 19 February 1871
Summary
Thanks for Descent.
Offers photo of patient with a second small milk-giving nipple on one breast, and of man with bristles on his ears, which come somewhat to a point.
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 313 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7492 |
To James Crichton-Browne 20 February [1871]
Summary
JC-B’s MS most useful.
P. Gratiolet’s observations on contraction and dilation of pupils of eye of a person in extreme terror. Has JC-B ever observed this? Expression has been his hobby-horse for 30 years.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 20 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 334 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7499 |
To James Crichton-Browne 28 March [1871]
Summary
Asks whether capillary circulation is ever influenced by the mind’s being directed intently to any part of the body.
Has JC-B ever seen idiots blush? JC-B’s MS on blushing is capital.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 28 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 335 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7635 |
From James Crichton-Browne 29 March 1871
Summary
Sends scraps of information. Everything he has sent is unreservedly at CD’s disposal.
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 314 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7643 |
From James Crichton-Browne [29–31 March 1871]
Summary
On the power of concentration to influence body organs.
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [29–31 Mar 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 324 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7649 |
From James Crichton-Browne 3 April 1871
Summary
Sends photographs of general paralytics. Expressions of exaltation of [these?] patients do not come out well in the photographs.
Is experimenting with idiots under his care. Has been unable to produce a blush in any one of them.
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 53.1: A30, C134–6; DAR 161: 315 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7658 |
To James Crichton-Browne 7 April [1871]
Summary
Thanks for information about blushing of idiots.
Case of pregnant woman "truly wonderful".
Thanks for photographs.
Has found London photographer, O. G. Rejlander, with passion for photographing expression.
Received information about iris of eye from F. C. Donders; shows contraction and dilation of pupil is very complex.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 7 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 336 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7666 |
To James Crichton-Browne 9 April [1871]
Summary
Asks JC-B to read CD’s MS on confusion of mind, which often or generally accompanies blushing.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 9 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 337 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7672 |
To James Crichton-Browne 12 April 1871
Summary
Discusses blushing. CD believes confusion of mind alone can account for it. Sends MS for JC-B’s comments and corrections.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 12 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 338 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7678 |
From James Crichton-Browne 16 April 1871
Summary
Is sending notes on blushing. Offers information on physiology and pathology of blushing.
Has sent photograph of seven imbeciles in one family.
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 316, 195.1: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7689 |
To James Crichton-Browne 18 April 1871
Summary
Comments on notes by JC-B on relation between blushing and mental disturbance. Asks for further information about blushing. "The single pencil line down this MS is my mark that I have used it once."
Thanks for "dreadful photo of the imbeciles".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 18 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 339; DAR 185: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7698 |
From James Crichton-Browne 18 August 1871
Summary
Sends CD a volume of West Riding Lunatic Asylum Medical Reports [1 (1871)], which contains some observations on blushing.
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Aug 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 317 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7910 |
To James Crichton-Browne 2 November [1871]
Summary
Asks JC-B to observe whether platysma muscle contracts during rigor or shivering fit.
Is just recommencing his essay on expression.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 2 Nov [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 340 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8047 |
To James Crichton-Browne 26 March [1871]
Summary
Has sent photographs of insane woman to be engraved. Assumes JC-B has no objection.
Is making immense use of JC-B’s MS. The book ought to be described as "by Darwin & Browne".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 26 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 341 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8253 |
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