RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Plumptre Lecture on Elocution. CUL-DAR53.2.103. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.
Charles John Plumptre. 1876. King's College lectures on elocution; or, the physiology and culture of voice and speech, and the expression of the emotions by language, countenance, and gesture. New edition. London: T. J. Allman.
Plumptre's acknowledgement of Darwin in the preface: "In conclusion, I have only to express my best thanks to Mr. Darwin for his kind permission to use his diagrams of the Muscles of Expression in the Human Face, and to Mr. William Carter and Mr. Godfrey Hall for the drawings they have been good enough to make for me as illustrations for this book."
Darwin's letter to Plumptre is transcribed in F2287. F2287
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Plumtre Lectures on Elocution -
Perhaps I might look at the chapter on expression though almost wholly from myself
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