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