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Darwin Correspondence Project

To C. J. Maynard   7 December [1872–3]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Dec. 7th

Mr Darwin begs leave to send a better photograph & one somewhat less ugly, & hopes that Mr Maynard will tear up the one sent. & now returned.2

Footnotes

The year range is established by the printed stationery, with the address in the centre; CD used this type of notepaper from January 1872 until November 1874.
The photograph that CD sent has not been identified, but he sat for Oscar Gustaf Rejlander in April 1871 and probably ordered some of the photographs in August 1871 (Correspondence vol. 19, letter to Elliott & Fry, 23 April [1871]; CD’s Classed account books (Down House MS)). Prior to this, he had been sending out a very poor photograph of himself (see Correspondence vol. 19, letter to Hinrich Nitsche, 25 April [1871]). In Descent 2: 28, CD had drawn on Maynard’s observations on the mud-turtle (Chrysemys picta) of the United States. Both the letter and photograph are pasted into a copy of Descent.

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.

Summary

CD sends a better photo for CJM.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-8664
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Charles Johnson Maynard
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Barbara and Robert Pincus (private collection)
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8664,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8664.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20

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