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Darwin Correspondence Project

To James Shaw   19 February 18731

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Feb 19 1873

Dear Sir

Many thanks for the excellent photo. The whole group with the pretty children is quite charming.2

Dear Sir | yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

This letter was previously published from a dealer’s description in Correspondence vol. 23, under the headline ‘to ?, 19 February 1873’.
The photograph was of a donkey showing an expression of surprise, according to a biography of Shaw that quotes this letter; Shaw had sent it because CD had not included donkeys in Expression (R. Wallace ed. 1899, p. lxi). The photograph has not been found in the Darwin Archive–CUL.

Bibliography

Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.

Wallace, Robert, ed. 1899. A country schoolmaster: James Shaw. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd.

Summary

Thanks for a photograph of a donkey and children.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-8776A
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
James Shaw
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Heritage Auctions (dealers) (22 April 2020, lot 47289)
Physical description
LS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8776A,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8776A.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21

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