To A. D. Kindermann [27 March 1871]1
Sir
I am writing an Essay on the Ex. of the emotions in man & the lower animals.—2 Miss Ludwig3 procured for me several of your photographs of young children, which are quite excellent. I write now to know whether you will grant me the favour to allow me to have 2 or 3 copied & engraved on wood for the sake of illustrating my book.— I should of course have printed beneath each, “copied from a photograph by M. A. Kindermann of Hamburgh.”4
I sent a message through Miss L that I shd be very glad if you could make for me a photograph of an infant, only a month or two old, whilst screaming with the eyes firmly closed, adjusting the focus for the eyes, so as to show the wrinkles round them, & permit me to have it engraved—
Hoping that you will grant me these favours, & be so kind as to send an early answer, I remain, Sir
Your obed servt | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
Summary
Wants permission to have some of AK’s photographs copied for Expression.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7629
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Adolph Diedrich Kindermann
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 96: 98
- Physical description
- ADraftS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7629,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7629.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19