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CHAPTER XV

1872—1876

The Expression of the Emotions—The Working Men's CoUege walking
party—Abinger Hall—^Dr Andrew Clark—A s4a/nce at Queen
Anne Street—Francis Darwin's marriage—-Leonard Darwin in
New Zealand—^Vivisection—The death of Fanny Allen—Experi¬
ments on Teazles.

The foUowing 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.

My dear Etty,                               ^^^^^ ^^y ^^' i^'^^-

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 pubhsh L.'s remarks as
my own, I shaU always fancy that the pubhc are hummiug
at me. Would L. object to my beginning with some such
sentence as foUows ? " Mr Litchfield, who has long studied
music, has given me the foUowing remarks," and then give
the remarks in inverted commas.

L. was qtdte right about there being a good deal of
repetition, and two or three pages can be condensed into