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AS has been seriously ill with rheumatic fever.

Is studying the natives of South Africa to see whether he can trace any connection between them and the populations of North Africa.

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Sends his congratulations and best wishes on CD’s marriage.

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On Hottentot ideas of beauty in women; their preference for women with large posteriors. [See Descent 2: 345–6.]

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Admires CD’s ability to work so hard under adverse circumstances; finds his health makes all work an effort.

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On Hottentots’ blushing.

Gives case of a baboon’s revenge. [See Descent, 2d ed. (1874), p. 69.]

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Disagrees with CD and especially with Lubbock and McLennan about communal marriage. [See Descent 2: 361–3.]

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Thanks CD for a letter to Galton which enabled him to get information on the inhabitants of a part of South Africa. Is trying to work up the ethnology of South Africa, but fears he will become disheartened.