To T. L. Brunton 30 October 1874
Down Beckenham | Kent
Oct 30. 1874
My dear Sir
I am very much obliged for the beautiful photograph.1 There is certainly a marked difference between the two sides of the face, but the only difference in expression that I can recognise, is that one side looks a little less devout. As you have attended so closely to differences on the sides of the face, shall I not return the photo— If so send me a post card.2 I read a few days ago with extraordinary interest your remarkable article on Inhibition.3 How wonderfully complex the nervous system is! I arrived at one side-conclusion, viz that you, & not I, ought to have written my book on Expression.
My dear Sir | yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Brunton, Thomas Lauder. 1874. On inhibition, peripheral and central. West Riding Lunatic Asylum Medical Reports 4: 179–222.
Smith, Roger. 1992. Inhibition: history and meaning in the sciences of mind and brain. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Summary
Discusses expression on two halves of the face. Mentions photograph [of picture by Rubens].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9703
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 143: 163
- Physical description
- C 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9703,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9703.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22