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DARWIN, Charles. Naturalist and Author.

A.L.S. 2 pp., 8vo Down, June 1st N.Y.  Circa 1840

[To Henry Denny 1 June [1844] This letter was for sale yet again, at RR Auction in 2015. Published in Correspondence vol. 30.]

Concerning the vermin of the Sandwich Islands and North America.

"You may remember a statement which I communicated to you about the Sandwich Isle lice not living on Europeans. The other day I met a passage in a foolish book 'White's Regular Gradation of Man,' which I thought you would like to know of. He states that he has heard that the lice on Negroes born in N. America and who have never been in a hot country, are blacker and larger than the lice on Europeans, and further that the European lice seem to refuse to live on the negroes." Etc.

DARWIN, Charles.

A.L.S. to Mr. G. Cupples

4 pp., 8vo. Beckenham Kent 1873. With envelope.

[To George Cupples 7 June [1873]]

Discussing the poet Emerson and Americans in general; also as to a critic who had written "with such loathing contempt of me, "and complaining of his ill-health... I have not seen Emerson, but for all that I have heard he must be a charming man. I doubt, however, whether we should have had enough in common to interest each other; and indeed I have hardly thought to talk to anyone with any spirit. During the last 2 or 3 years we have seen several Yankees, and as a rule they seem a most pleasant set... I am extra stupid and tired." Etc.