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To James Shaw   11 February [1866]

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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

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

To James Shaw   24 November [1866]

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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
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