Dear M^r. Darwin,

I think the enclosed story of a dog-suicide will interest you. It seems to be better authenticated than any I had heard of when I wrote my article.² It is sent to me by Rev^d. C. Conybeare of Itchen Stoke.³ Perhaps some of your party will kindly return it to me when you have read it— Miss Lloyd⁴ & I have come to Brighton for Xmas but intend to return to Hereford Sq in a day or two—

A friend of mine begs me to tell you that she has twice seen an Ourang Outang stare a baboon out of countenance:—the baboon retreating before the fixed & threatening gaze of the Ourang. tho’ there was no minatory action whatever

Very truly y^rs. | Frances P. Cobbe

The animal my friend believes to have been an Ourang was kept in the Crystal Palace⁵