From Edward Burnett Tylor 8 September 1869
Linden | Wellington Som.
Sep. 8. 69
My dear Sir
I understand from Sir John Lubbock that you have a copy of Mr Haliburton’s curious paper, published in some Nova Scotia transactions, on Superstitions connected with Sneezing.1 If you can find this paper without difficulty, I should be much obliged if you would lend it to me. I would not trouble you with this request, but I do not know how otherwise to get at this paper, which would complete a collection of accounts I have on the subject.2 With many apologies
Believe me Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Edward B. Tylor
Chas. Darwin Esq
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Haliburton, Robert Grant. 1863. New materials for the history of man, derived from a comparison of the customs and superstitions of nations. Halifax, Nova Scotia: n.p.
Tylor, Edward Burnett. 1871. Primitive culture: researches into the development of mythology, philosophy, religion, art, and custom. 2 vols. London: John Murray.
Summary
Wishes to borrow a paper by R. G. Haliburton on superstitions connected with sneezing [see 5635].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6883
- From
- Edward Burnett Tylor
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Wellington, Somerset
- Source of text
- DAR 178: 201
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6883,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6883.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17
