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CHAPTER XV 



18721876 



The Expression of the Emotions The Working Men's College walking 

 party Abinger Hall Dr Andrew Clark A stance at Queer 

 Anne Street Francis Darwin's marriage Leonard Darwin in 

 New Zealand Vivisection The death of Fanny Allen Experi- 

 ments on Teazles. 



THE following letter relates to my father's book on the 

 Expression of the Emotions, in which my husband gave him 

 some help on expression in music. 



Charles Darwin to his daughter Henrietta Litchfield. 



' MYDEARETTY, DOWN, Jfay 13, 1872. 



Litchfield's remarks strike me (ignorant as I am) 

 as very good; and I should much like to insert them. 

 But I cannot possibly give them as my own. I used at 

 school to be a great hand at cribbing old verses, and I 

 remember with fearful distinctness Dr Butler's prolonged 

 hum as he stared at me, which said a host of unpleasant 

 things with as much meaning and clearness as Herbert 

 Spencer could devise. Now if I publish L.'s remarks as 

 my own, I shall always fancy that the public are humming 

 at me. Would L. object to my beginning with some such 

 sentence as follows ? " Mr Litchfield, who has long studied 

 music, has given me the following remarks," and then give 

 the remarks in inverted commas. 



L. was quite right about there being a good deal of 

 repetition, and two or three pages can be condensed into 





