From William Johnson Raybould to Abraham Dee Bartlett 22 August 1870
6 Gladstone Place | High Park Road | Smethwick | Nr Birmingham
Augt 22 1870,
To the Manager of the | Royal Zoological Gardens | London1
Sir/
I have a Tortoise shell Coloured Cat with 6 claws perfect on each Foot also 2 young ones with the same Number of Toes or claws, one Cream & white, & the other Blk & white, a month old Are they worth your notice (If so make me an offer for them)2
Kindly say & oblige | Yours very truly | W J Raybould
Footnotes
Bibliography
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Offers a polydactylous cat to the Zoological Gardens. [Offer declined and letter forwarded to CD.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7307
- From
- William Johnson Raybould
- To
- Abraham Dee Bartlett
- Sent from
- Smithwick, Birmingham
- Source of text
- DAR 176: 25
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7307,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18
