To ? 6 April [1869–71]1
Beckenham, Kent
April 6th
[…] My experiment was intended solely to show that colour reappeared, and I choose kinds which breed turn to colour, as is certainly the case with spots and those which I tried2 […]
[…] I have recorded an undoubted case of wild rock Pigeons caught in Scotland having bred, in confinement3 […]
[et termine sa lettre en rappelant qu’il est accoutumé à être démenti et habitué au peu de confiance qu’accordent à la véracité de ses écrits ceux]4 […] who do not take the trouble to learn what I have written […]
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
"My experiment was intended solely to show that colour reappeared, and I choose kinds which breed [true] to colour, as is certainly the case with [sports] and those which I tried . . .
I have recorded an undoubted case of wild rock Pigeons caught in Scotland having bred in confinement …"
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6098A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- L’Autographe (dealers) (Catalogue 21)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6098A,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6098A.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17
