Letter from Charles Darwin

Date:
17 February 1874
Reference:
MS.5134
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Letter from Charles Darwin. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Letter to Shuttleworth as Medical Superintendent of the Royal Albert Asylum, Lancaster, from Charles Darwin, concerning the children of first cousins. Produced in Down.

Publication/Creation

17 February 1874

Physical description

1 item

Finding aids

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).

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A digitised copy is held by Wellcome Collection as part of The Mental Health Archives digitisation project.

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