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DCP-LETT-4943

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Shaw
Date:
30 Nov 1865
Source of text:
R. Wallace ed. 1899, p. lvi.
Summary:

Gratified that JS defends views of Origin.

Thinks beauty of flowers is solely to attract insects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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-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].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5905

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Shaw
Date:
20 Feb 1868
Source of text:
Robert Wallace ed. 1899 : lxi
Summary:

Is obliged for note on right-handedness. The subject is a very curious one, but CD has never attended to it and can give no additional facts.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8776A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Shaw
Date:
19 Feb 1873
Source of text:
Heritage Auctions (dealers) (22 April 2020, lot 47289)
Summary:

Thanks for a photograph of a donkey and children.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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