To James Shaw [23 April 1866]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E. [6 Queen Anne Street, London]
Monday
Dear Sir
I am much obliged for your kind letter & all the great trouble which you have taken in sending me the various & interesting facts on birds admiring themselves.—2 I am very glad to hear of these facts.— I have just finished revising & adding to a new Edition of the Origin, & in this I have given, without going into details (so that I shall not be able to use your facts) some remarks on the subject of beauty.3 When the Edition is published in the course of the summer I will do myself the pleasure of sending you a copy.—4
With my best thanks I remain Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Summary
Thanks for sending facts on birds admiring themselves; mentions use in new edition [4th] of Origin.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5006
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- James Shaw
- Sent from
- London, Queen Anne St Down letterhead
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.317)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5006,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5006.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14
