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DARWIN (Charles). Famous Scientist

A.L.S. 4 pp., 8vo.

Down, August 12th. N.Y. Circa 1846.

"…I had given up all hopes of knowing whether peculiarities in the caterpillar state were hereditary, but now the point is amply proved…I am, also, much obliged for the information about the S. French caterpillar breeds; I was not aware the differences were so great." Etc.

DARWIN (Charles). Famous Scientist

A.L.S. 2 1/2 pp., 4to. Down, September 2nd. (1847).

[To Mary Anne Theresa Whitby 2 September [1847]]

"…Whenever I have observed the moths raised from silk-worms kept by children, the wings have been more or less crumpled, & I have been assured that they can never fly. Does this hold good, especially in France & Italy?...

"You were so kind last year as to give me hopes that you would try two experiments on hereditariness (a point on which I am particularly interested) in the caterpillar state: the first was whether the black eye-browed kind would produce black or dark-eyed caterpillar children: the second was to see if the very fat caterpillars…would produce moths." Etc.

DARWIN (Charles). Famous Scientist

A.L.S. to Mr. G. Cupples. 4 pp., 8vo.

Down, Beckenham, April 28th. (1873). With envelope.

[To George Cupples 28 April [1873]]

Complaining of a very severe review which had appeared in the Edinburgh Review, of his book. "Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals." Asking his correspondent for information concerning the writer.

"…If I was forced to lay a wager, I would wager that Dr. Stirling was the Reviewer, I think there is a good deal of truth in some of his criticisms, such as on my ignorance of literature and art, but temper led him into occasional curious unfairness, as when he. ...says I quote in my Expression book only those who hold similar opinions with my own: for H. Spencer is the sole Evolutionist who has written on Expression and I quote copiously my other authors....I feel it rather hard, after wading through so much abuse, not to find myself one whit the wiser on any point, for I knew my own ignorance beforehand." Etc.