From H. E. Darwin [30 March 1870]1
I can swear to Mildred’s2 having the knots in the elevated corners of her eyebrows. The wrinkles were hardly to be seen. The corners of her mouth down. This was before crying, and when she cried the look ceased.3
CD annotations
1.1 Mildred’s] ‘Langton’ interl pencil
Top of letter: ‘March 30— 1870 Henrietta’ added pencil
End of letter: ‘Analogous remarks were made on Margarets child’4added pencil
Footnotes
The date is established by CD’s annotation at the top of the letter.
Henrietta refers to Mildred Langton, CD’s nephew’s daughter.
CD discussed the expression of grief in children in Expression, pp. 190–5.
CD refers to his niece Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams. See Correspondence vol. 17, letter from M. S. V. Williams to H. E. Darwin, [after 14 October 1869]. Her child was Hervey Wedgwood Williams.
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
Summary
Describes crying in an infant.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7153
- From
- Henrietta Emma Darwin/Henrietta Emma Litchfield
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 162: 69
- Physical description
- Amem 1p †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7153,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7153.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18
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