From W. E. Darwin 5 March [1868]1
High field Villa | Southampton
March 5.
My dear Father,
I have received your note and cheque,2 also box containing skull and am much obliged.
I will shew Sanford the memorandum about the two sets of muscles.3
I had a talk with Langstaff last night: he talked of it as well ascertained that the lachrymal glands hardly secrete at all till after the first fortnight.4
We also had a jaw about crying & squalling, when I have had another I will tell you what he says, if it comes to anything.
You see my address is Highfield, I have taken lodgings here, it is nearly the top of the Common &
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Footnotes
Bibliography
Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
Summary
Crying in babies.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5981
- From
- William Erasmus Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Southampton
- Source of text
- DAR 162: 87
- Physical description
- inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5981,” accessed on 1 June 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5981.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16