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DCP-LETT-7411

From:
Emily Jane Davis; Emily Jane Pfeiffer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 26 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 174: 40
Summary:

Suggests aesthetic sense in animals is merely secondary to sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7719

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 396
Summary:

Believes heliotype process is best for book illustrations. Has sent copies [of Descent] to Loescher and Carus.

Is working on an estimate for the cheap [6th] edition of the Origin.

The Times review has not hurt sales of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7719F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emily Jane Davis; Emily Jane Pfeiffer
Date:
26 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Misc. 14)
Summary:

Thanks for EJP’s suggestion that it is fascination rather than aesthetic appreciation that drives sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP767

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Arthur Hay
Date:
26 April 1871
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418899
Summary:

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Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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