From Francis Darwin [before 22 April 1871?]1
University “Pitt” Club
Dear Father
I send you Jackson’s letter—2 it seems to me to be what you want. I thought that shrugging meant only a raising & sudden dropping of the shoulders, & so thought it wouldn’t be much good3
About prayer he told me that he had been talking to old King about it, & he said that this (1) is one attitude of prayer—4
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he also said that this (2) is the attitude of adoration
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Husckke’s attitude of astonishment seems to be natural to some people, Jackson asked a man how he should express astonishmen〈t〉 with his hands & he did it exactly5
CD annotations
Footnotes
Summary
Expressions in attitudes of prayer and adoration.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7420
- From
- Francis Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- University Pitt Club
- Source of text
- DAR 162: 55
- Physical description
- AL inc?
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7420,” accessed on 23 September 2017, http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/DCP-LETT-7420
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19
