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Admires FJW’s article ["The boundaries of science", Macmillan’s Mag. 4 (1861): 237–47]. Thinks she understands his book [Origin] perfectly.

On design in nature: the more CD thinks on the subject the less he can see proof of it.

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Sends FJW replies to queries about expression.

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Sends extract from Charma [Essai sur le langage (1846)] on the origin of nodding and shaking the head [See Expression, p. 273 n. 17].

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Extract from Seneca’s letters establishes that hiding the face in shame was not a classical gesture.

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Protests against FJW making the struggle for existence still more odious by calling it ‘selfish competition’.

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Notes criticising Max Müller’s views on language and Darwinism.

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Miss Gourlay reports case of girl at the Lock Hospital who covered her face in shame.

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The expression of shame in ancients, Milton, the Bible, and in poor girls under Miss Gourlay’s charge.

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Writes to HED for fear of tiring CD and to pass on, if she deems suitable, her view that there is no distinction to be made between self-regarding and other-regarding virtues.

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A draft letter [but sent in the original state by Emma Darwin]. Approves of FJW’s notice of his views.

CD has slightly revised parts in view of both approving and disapproving critics, but still remains convinced about his fundamental notions.