To [?] 22 [March? 1867]
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CD must decline his correspondent’s kind offer [unspecified], but he is out of health and has passed the part about dogs in a work now at the printer’s [Variation].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 22 [Mar? 1867] |
| Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5453 |
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Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … Darwin had sent the manuscript to the publisher in February 1867, and had spent a good deal of that …
- … Record. Dallas had begun the work in November 1867 and had expected to complete it in a fortnight. …
- … that had been discovered in a thornbush in Cumberland. An unidentified correspondent offered facts …
- … emotional expression. His questionnaire, first sent out in 1867, was circulated to remote parts of …
Darwin’s observations on his children
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Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…
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- … questioning his numerous scientific correspondents and, in 1867, by preparing a printed …
- … in Emma Darwin’s hand. [81] This sentence is in an unidentified child’s hand. …
