To James Crichton-Browne 8 October 1874
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Oct. 8th
My dear Sir
I am very much obliged for the W. Riding Asylum Report.— I see that there is an article with an excellent photograph by you, & I am sure to read this & I daresay others with interest.1
My dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
CD refers to Crichton-Browne’s article ‘Acute dementia’ in the West Riding Lunatic Asylum Medical Reports (Crichton-Browne 1874); several volumes of these reports are in the Darwin Library–CUL, but CD’s copy of this volume has not been found. A photograph of a patient suffering from the condition is in ibid., opposite p. 265.
Bibliography
Crichton-Browne, James. 1874. Acute dementia. West Riding Lunatic Asylum Medical Reports 4: 265–90.
Summary
Thanks JC-B for copy of Medical Reports of the West Riding Lunatic Asylum.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9668
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- James Crichton-Browne
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.451)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9668,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9668.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22
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