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The descent of man : autograph manuscript, draft.

BIB_ID
108232
Accession number
MA 3899
Creator
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
Display Date
Down, England, circa 1868-1870.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, special gift of Frederick R. Koch, 1981.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 33.8 x 21 cm
Notes
Revised draft in ink, cancelled with a pencilled cross.
Numbered "23."
Written on blue paper.
There is neither a place nor a date of writing on the item, though it was probably written between 1868 and 1870 in the village of Down (now considered part of Greater London).
Pencil notes on verso.
See collection files for more information.
Provenance
Purchased from John Howell - Books, catalog 53, number 55.
Summary
Containing the beginning of a discussion of the difference between human language and animal communication; includes references to the work of John Horne Tooke, Hensleigh Wedgwood, and Frederic Farrar.