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Darwin praises Henrietta’s edit of a pre-publication manuscript of Descent.

Darwin writes to his daughter Henrietta while she holidayed in Italy and France requesting her help with the editing of Descent. Darwin clearly had great faith in Henrietta’s ability both to understand his work and to improve his writing style.

Darwin writes to Henrietta voicing concern about her husband (Richard Litchfield’s) contribution to Expression going unreferenced.

As early as 1838, Darwin had begun to record and make observations on expressions, noting the behaviour of animals as well as the development of children – both his own and those of his friends. Just weeks before her marriage to Charles, Emma…

Darwin discussed Duchenne’s work in correspondence with the psychiatrist and amateur photographer James Crichton-Browne who became another collaborator to Expression.

'I am, however, now rich in photographs, for I have found a photographer in London. Rejlander, who for years has had a passion for photographing all sorts of chance expressions exhibited on various occasions, especially by children, and taken…

Darwin queries which part of his manuscript Murray considered “coarse”, confirming in the process that a section on female sexual desire was not his work but a quote from John Hunter’s Essays and Observations on Natural History (1861).

Darwin writes to Lady Dorothy Nevill to thank her for sending samples of orchids and other rare flowers from her hothouse. A well-known writer, hostess, horticulturalist and a subject of scandal when, in 1847, she was caught in a summerhouse with…

Darwin praises the work of Mary Treat, an entomologist from New Jersey. Her article on Drosera was referenced by Darwin in his 1875 publication Insectivorous Plants. As a published naturalist, Treat had already constructed a public profile for…

Darwin refers to Mary Treat’s published work ‘Observations on the Sundew’, American Naturalist Vol. VII, (December, 1873), pp. 705 – 708.