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Darwin Correspondence Project

To E. R. Shaw   4 December 1879

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. [4 Bryanston Street, London.]

Dec. 4th 1879

Dear Sir

I am much obliged to you for your kind note.—1 All such facts as that which you have communicated to me, are interesting, & there is indeed hardly any fact in natural history which deserves to be called little. Now that you mention the case, I am almost sure that I have somewhere seen the same appearance in horses; but I am not likely ever again to write on the variation of domesticated animals.—2

Dear Sir | yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

Footnotes

Shaw had written to CD about horses with beards; see letter from E. R. Shaw, 2 December 1879.

Summary

Thanks ERS for information about variation in horses.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-12340
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Edmund Rogers Shaw
Sent from
London Down letterhead
Source of text
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.568)
Physical description
ALS 1p

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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12340,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12340.xml

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