To Annie Dowie 27 July 1875
Summary
Has previously quoted details concerning the regrowth of her amputated extra digit in Variation [2: 14–15]. The case has since been disputed, so CD, who is revising his work, asks for some fuller details.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Anne (Annie) Chambers; Anne (Annie) Dowie |
Date: | 27 July 1875 |
Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (13 March 2002) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10096 |
To Annie Dowie 1 August [1875]
Summary
Thanks AD for her account [of the regrowth of her sister’s amputated supernumerary finger]. Is much perplexed what to conclude. Feels he should either retract his account [in Variation, 1st ed., 2: 14–15] or substantiate it by judgment of a physiologist like James Paget. Asks for tracings of her sister’s hand. [See Variation, 2d ed., 1: 459].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Anne (Annie) Chambers; Anne (Annie) Dowie |
Date: | 1 Aug [1875] |
Classmark: | National Library of Australia (MS 760/2/10–11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10106 |
To Annie Dowie 4 August [1875]
Summary
CD sends his thanks for her intercession with her sister [Alice Chambers]. The extract from her father’s [Robert Chambers] diary will be sufficient.
He forwards the requested autograph.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Anne (Annie) Chambers; Anne (Annie) Dowie |
Date: | 4 Aug [1875] |
Classmark: | Sophie Dupré (dealer) (Catalogue 25, 1992) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10108A |
To Annie Dowie 16 August [1875]
Summary
The question is whether additional digits possess power of regrowth beyond the ordinary. James Paget has convinced CD that they do not. CD must alter what he has published. [See Variation, 2d. ed., 2: 459.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Anne (Annie) Chambers; Anne (Annie) Dowie |
Date: | 16 Aug [1875] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.473) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10119 |
To Annie Dowie 24 March 1871
Summary
Robert Chambers, AD’s father, spoke of CD’s book [Descent?] during his last hours of life.
CD’s respect for Chambers, to whose scientific work he had not done justice.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Anne (Annie) Chambers; Anne (Annie) Dowie |
Date: | 24 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | Priestley 1904, p. 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7620 |
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Chambers, Annie | (5) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Dowie, Annie | (5) |