To W. B. Tegetmeier 9 April [1859]1
Down Bromley Kent
Ap. 9th
My dear Sir
I have received the pretty Fowls all safe, & enclose P.O. for the amount.—2 I shall now want no more. I have already got Chickens from the Game & Malay. The Spanish Cock is in high health & looks splendid.— Most sincerely do I thank you for all the great trouble you have taken. You have not only saved me much trouble & considerable expence, but you have assisted me in a better manner than I could have done myself—3
I shall go next month to press with an abstract of my general views on the origin of species, & it will make a volume of about 500 pages, & I shall have much pleasure in sending you a copy when it is published.—4 I shall give abstract of conclusions at which I have arrived on Bees cells.—5
Believe me with many thanks | Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Summary
Thanks WBT for his help with poultry
and informs him about his forthcoming work [Origin].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2450A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Bernhard Tegetmeier
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (tipped into W. B. Tegetmeier’s presentation copy of Origin (DC BD 309); General Special Collections DC AL 1/6)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2450A,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2450A.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7
