To Paolo Mantegazza 28 December 1872
Summary
Thanks for the letter commending Expression [see 8692]. CD "was not at all sure the work was worth publishing".
Acknowledges receipt of some pamphlets from PM, which his wife will translate.
Regretfully must refuse PM’s offer to translate Expression since it has been promised to another.
Has now received PM’s Physiology of pleasure [Fisiologia del piacere (1870)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Paolo Mantegazza |
| Date: | 28 Dec 1872 |
| Classmark: | University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (MSS gen 30.066) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8696A |
From Paolo Mantegazza 4 May 1872
Summary
CD has been elected Honorary Member of Società Italiana di Antropologia e di Etnologia.
Cranial measurements connect man and apes.
He has shown differences between male and female skulls that bear on sexual selection.
| Author: | Paolo Mantegazza |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 May 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8311 |
From Paolo Mantegazza 23 December 1872
Summary
Ecstatic praise of CD and Expression, which has transformed physiognomy.
Sends his papers on sadness ["Dell’azione del dolore", Gaz. Med. Ital. Lombarda (1866, 1867)]. Sends some observations on physiognomy.
| Author: | Paolo Mantegazza |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Dec 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8692 |
| letter | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Mantegazza, Paolo | (1) |
