To W. B. Tegetmeier 4 July [1871]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
July 4th
My dear Sir
Very many thanks for your present.—2 I always read everything which you write, with interest.—
Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the headed notepaper, which is of a sort used by CD between 10 May 1871 and 8 January 1872.
Tegetmeier’s book The homing or carrier pigeon (Tegetmeier 1871) was published between 15 and 31 July 1871 (Publishers’ circular 1871, p. 467).
Bibliography
Tegetmeier, William Bernhard. 1871. The homing or carrier pigeon (le pigeon voyageur): its history, general management, and method of training. London and New York: George Routledge and Sons.
Summary
Thanks for gift of WBT’s book [Pheasants for coverts and aviaries (1873)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8963
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Bernhard Tegetmeier
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8963,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8963.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24 (Supplement)
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