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DCP-LETT-5003F

From:
James Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6–10 Feb 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 14–17
Summary:

Memorandum of a meeting of the Natural History & Antiquarian Society held in Dumfries on Tuesday 6 February 1866.

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DCP-LETT-5004

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Shaw
Date:
11 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
R. Wallace ed. 1899, pp. lvi–lvii;
Summary:

Discusses beauty of birds and butterflies.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5005

From:
James Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 150
Summary:

Reports instances of birds admiring their images in mirrors or on pictures.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5060

From:
James Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 10–13
Summary:

Anecdotes about appreciation of beauty by animals.

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DCP-LETT-5006

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Shaw
Date:
[23 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.317)
Summary:

Thanks for sending facts on birds admiring themselves; mentions use in new edition [4th] of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5270

From:
James Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 151
Summary:

Thanks CD for copy of the Origin [4th ed.]; makes some observations on beauty and ugliness in nature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5284A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Shaw
Date:
24 Nov [1866]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (1986)
Summary:

Has seen the Athenæum and admires his article on beauty ["Feeling of beauty among animals", Athenæum (24 Nov. 1866): 681].

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