From W. D. Fox to G. H. Darwin 15 April [1879]
Summary
Fears he cannot give much information for CD’s book [Erasmus Darwin]. Recounts how his mother’s health was improved by Erasmus Darwin’s treatment. Remembers being attacked as a boy by an angry lady whose beautiful teeth were extracted by Dr Darwin "to cure some nervous spasms".
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Apr [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 175–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11995 |
To C. M. C. Darwin 15 April 1879
Summary
Thanks for letter of introduction for Leonard Darwin to CMCD’s tenant at Elston.
Sends some information about R. W. Darwin’s residence at Elston; does not plan to include a portrait of him.
Asks the acreage of land at Cleatham.
Offers to send a print of the portrait of himself by W. W. Ouless.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | The late Mrs Vivien Kindersley (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11995F |
| letter | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. M. C. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. M. C. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
4.15 George Cruikshank, comic drawing
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< Back to Introduction A sheet of comic drawings titled ‘Comparative anatomy à la Darwin’, is signed by George Cruikshank junior, who has been variously identified as the great-nephew or the illegitimate son of his more famous namesake. Unfortunately…
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- … < Back to Introduction A sheet of comic drawings titled ‘Comparative anatomy à la …
Experimenting with emotions
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Darwin’s interest in emotions can be traced as far back as the Beagle voyage. He was fascinated by the sounds and gestures of the peoples of Tierra del Fuego. On his return, he started recording observations in a set of notebooks, later labelled '…
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- … of children’, Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix III, p. 415 ). Darwin’s study of emotional …
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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- … Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children,[1] began the research that …
