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From James Shaw [6–10 February 1866]
Summary
Memorandum of a meeting of the Natural History & Antiquarian Society held in Dumfries on Tuesday 6 February 1866.
| Author: | James Shaw |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [6–10 Feb 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 14–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5003F |
To James Shaw 11 February [1866]
Summary
Discusses beauty of birds and butterflies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Shaw |
| Date: | 11 Feb [1866] |
| Classmark: | R. Wallace ed. 1899, pp. lvi–lvii; |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5004 |
From James Shaw 14 February 1866
Summary
Reports instances of birds admiring their images in mirrors or on pictures.
| Author: | James Shaw |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 150 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5005 |
To James Shaw [23 April 1866]
Summary
Thanks for sending facts on birds admiring themselves; mentions use in new edition [4th] of Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Shaw |
| Date: | [23 Apr 1866] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.317) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5006 |
From James Shaw 19 April 1866
Summary
Anecdotes about appreciation of beauty by animals.
| Author: | James Shaw |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Apr 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 10–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5060 |
From James Shaw 7 November 1866
Summary
Thanks CD for copy of the Origin [4th ed.]; makes some observations on beauty and ugliness in nature.
| Author: | James Shaw |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Nov 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 151 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5270 |
To James Shaw 24 November [1866]
Summary
Has seen the Athenæum and admires his article on beauty ["Feeling of beauty among animals", Athenæum (24 Nov. 1866): 681].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Shaw |
| Date: | 24 Nov [1866] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (1986) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5284A |
Document type
| letter | (7) |
Author
| Shaw, James | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Shaw, James | (3) |
