From Andrew Smith 26 February 1871
Summary
Admires CD’s ability to work so hard under adverse circumstances; finds his health makes all work an effort.
| Author: | Andrew Smith |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Feb 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 185 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7516 |
From Andrew Smith 17 April 1871
Summary
On Hottentots’ blushing.
Gives case of a baboon’s revenge. [See Descent, 2d ed. (1874), p. 69.]
| Author: | Andrew Smith |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 109–10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7694 |
From Andrew Smith 16 May 1871
Summary
Disagrees with CD and especially with Lubbock and McLennan about communal marriage. [See Descent 2: 361–3.]
| Author: | Andrew Smith |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 May 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 179–80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7760 |
From Andrew Smith 18 July 1871
Summary
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.
| Author: | Andrew Smith |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 July 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 186 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7872 |
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Author
| Smith, Andrew | (4) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Smith, Andrew | (4) |
