Lady Bell2 having mentioned to me that Shaw had written a paper from Bells papers I asked her to get me a copy, & in consequence Mr Shaw has sent this little book I dont know whether it will be any use or not3
See letter from Alexander Shaw to E. A. Darwin, 22 March 1867 and n. 2. In November 1866 Erasmus had given CD a copy of Bell 1844 that included Shaw’s 1844 essay as an appendix (inscription in CD’s annotated copy of Bell 1844, Darwin Library–CUL; see Marginalia 1: 47–9). Neither Shaw 1844, nor any other separate publication of Shaw’s, has been found in the Darwin Archive–CUL.
Is sending a copy of [John] Shaw’s book, which Lady Bell says is based on Charles Bell’s papers [possibly C. Bell, A treatise on diseases of the urethra, 3d ed. with notes by John Shaw (1822)].