From Robert Swinhoe 14 March 1871
33 Oakley Square | Chelsea SW.
14 March, 1871.
My dear Mr. Darwin,
I do not distinctly recollect, but I have an idea that a stoop is affected which would throw up the shoulders a little. I never saw a Chinaman throw up his shoulders in the emphatic way a Frenchman does, or in the cringing manner of a Bengalie.1
If you will kindly send me another copy of the Queries on Expression I will make some more efforts to answer them in view of the people at Ningpo (below Shanghai), to which Port I am now appointed Consul.2 I leave England by the Southampton Mail of the 1st. of April next, and my address will be, RS.
H.M. Consul
Ningpo
China.
Never forget to work me if I can be of the slightest use to you. I am always at your service.
With many thanks for your kind wishes, | I remain, | Your’s very sincerely, | Robert Swinhoe.
Footnotes
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
Is leaving for Ningpo; asks CD for another copy of his [Queries about expression], which he will try to answer.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7580
- From
- Robert Swinhoe
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Oakley Square, 33
- Source of text
- DAR 177: 335
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7580,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7580.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19
