To Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell [before 10 April 1856]
Summary
CD asks whether New Zealand tribes have an idea of beauty in women which is "like ours"; WBDM answers, "Yes".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell |
| Date: | [before 10 Apr 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 85: A99 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6520 |
To W. B. D. Mantell 10 April [1856]
Summary
Thanks WBDM for his reply [missing] to CD’s previous letter [1603].
Asks for more details on the erratic blocks.
Asks also if there is good evidence that there formerly existed [in New Zealand] some animal with hair, like an otter or beaver.
Finally, do the uncivilised natives have the same ideal of [human] beauty as Europeans?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell |
| Date: | 10 Apr [1856] |
| Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, MS-Papers-0083-268) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1663 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Mantell, W. B. D. | (2) |
