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To J. P. M. Weale   27 February [1867]

Summary

Encloses his queries about expression which he asks JPMW to forward to trustworthy observers who associate with Hottentots and Kaffirs.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Philip Mansel Weale
Date:  27 Feb [1867]
Classmark:  University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 47)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5422

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  • … his letter of 7 July 1867 . See also letter from M.  E.  Barber, [after February 1867] . …

To W. W. Reade   21 May [1868]

Summary

Thanks WWR for information in answer to his queries concerning expression.

Asks when horns first appear among a breed of sheep on the Guinea coast,

and for information about the gorilla and chimpanzee.

Asks about African ideas of beauty.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Winwood Reade
Date:  21 May [1868]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.371)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6754

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  • … 7 July 1867 , and possibly letter from M.  E.  Barber, [after February 1867] ), from the …

From Mary Elizabeth Barber   [after February 1867]

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Replies to Queries on expression based on observations of the Kaffir and Fingoe tribes in South Africa.

Author:  Mary Elizabeth Bowker; Mary Elizabeth Barber
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after Feb 1867]
Classmark:  DAR 160: 40
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5745

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  • … their manners and customs. M.  E.  Barber End of letter : Sent through M r J.  P.  Manson …

To J. D. Hooker   27 October [1872]

Summary

Asks for address of a Mrs Barber somewhere in South Africa.

JDH’s letter in Nature [6 (1872): 516–17] is excellent, and wonderfully quiet.

Severely criticises Owen’s conduct.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  27 Oct [1872]
Classmark:  DAR 94: 235–6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8579

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  • Barber had responded to CD’s queries on expression, but her responses had been sent by James Philip Mansel Weale (see Correspondence vol.  15, letter from M.  E.   …

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

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  • … for example, Correspondence vol.  15, letter from M.  E.  Barber, [after February 1867] ; …