To ? 7 April [1871]1
Down. | Beckenham | Kent. S.E.
April 7
My dear Sir
I write one line to thank you for your assistance & to beg you, when next you meet Dr. Laycock, to return him my very sincere thanks for all the references.—2 I will endeavour to get the works referred to.— I possess owing to Dr Laycock’s great kindness Brain & mind;3 but absence from home has prevented my as yet consulting the passages.—4
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
Laycock, Thomas. 1839. Analytical essay on irregular and aggravated forms of hysteria. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal 50: 302–56 and 52: 43–86.
Laycock, Thomas. 1840. A treatise on the nervous diseases of women: comprising an inquiry into the nature, causes, and treatment of spinal and hysterical disorders. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans.
Laycock, Thomas. 1860. Mind and brain: or, The correlations of consciousness and organisation: with their applications to philosophy, zoology, physiology, mental pathology, and the practice of medicine. 2 vols. Edinbugh: Sutherland and Knox. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co.
Summary
Asks correspondent to thank Thomas Laycock for his references. CD has been away from home and has not yet consulted his copy of Laycock’s Mind and brain [1860].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6102A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- R. M. Smythe (dealer) (November 1998)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6102A,” accessed on 19 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6102A.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19