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From A. H. Sayce 27 July 1877
Summary
Having read CD’s article in Mind ["Biographical sketch of an infant", Collected papers 2: 191–200], AHS questions CD about the child’s first attempts at speech, hoping to throw light on the origin of language.
| Author: | Archibald Henry Sayce |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11074 |
To A. H. Sayce 28 July 1877
Summary
Thinks "mum" comes from shutting the mouth repeatedly as a sign of wanting to eat.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Archibald Henry Sayce |
| Date: | 28 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. lett. d. 63, fols. 51–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11077 |
From A. H. Sayce 30 July 1877
Summary
Thanks CD for statement about children’s speech. Asks permission to quote him in his forthcoming book.
| Author: | Archibald Henry Sayce |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11080 |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Sayce, A. H. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Sayce, A. H. | (1) |
