To W. B. Tegetmeier 24 December [1858]1
Down Bromley Kent
Dec. 24th
My dear Sir
I thank you most sincerely for the Fowls. The Spanish looks splendid & the two white Dorkings very nice. The poor silver Poland has had its head much hurt, by its foot being entangled in some string, but I hope will recover; & anyhow I have one hen of your breeding of this Breed. If I could get silver pencilled & spangled Hamburgh & some one other white breed (if a sitter all the better) I should be well stocked.2
You can, if you please, let me know what I am indebted to you either now or when you have completed the purchases & I will repay you with very cordial thanks.3
But my cock is in a fury with me for destroying all his favourite Hens!
My dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Do not forget, when opportunity offers to ask Mr. Weir about the Silver Barb.—4
When will you describe the Foreign Fowls; if you shd. fail in time, I wd. ask Mr Brent, but I shd very much prefer to see the work done by you.—5
You will exclaim “what a bore the man is”!
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks for some poultry breeds.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2383
- 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 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2383,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2383.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7