Darwin, C. R. to Tegetmeier, W. B.
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Hopes to begin pigeon MS in a week.
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Has lately been working on bees' cells and wishes very much to examine a cylindrical one.
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Down Bromley Kent
June 5
My dear Sir
I am sorry to say that I have been so much engaged with other objects, that I have not begun with my Pigeon M.S. but hope to begin in weeks time.—
I have lately been hard at work with Bees cells, a friend having lent me a glass Hive,
which could open, so that I c
This note requires no answer, without indeed you
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Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
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Dated by the reference to CD's manuscript on pigeons and by the relationship to the letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 9 May [1858]. - +
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CD had promised to give Tegetmeier his pigeons when he had finished writing up the results of his study (see letters to W. B. Tegetmeier, [21 April 1858] and 9 May [1858]). He began the manuscript later in the month (see letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 22 June [1858]). - +
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CD refers to the ‘observatory hive’ lent to him by Louis Knight Bruce (see letter to W. E. Darwin, [26 May 1858]). - +
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See letters to W. B. Tegetmeier, [21 April 1858] and 9 May [1858].